As Prime Minister Albanese heads to Honiara for the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders meeting this...
China
Xi Jinping’s parade: strongmen, hubris and overreach
Back in the days of the Roman Empire, during parades in their honour Roman commanders used to have...
Micronesia’s strategic significance is rising
China is trying to change the Pacific Islands architecture by demanding the island...
Episode 48: Grumpy But Grand Strategy – Australia’s Two Pillars are both in trouble
Episode 48: Grumpy But Grand Strategy - Australia' | RSS.com Before Dr Hellyer jets off to Samoa,...
Australia should push for alliance treaty with Japan
Two decades of bipartisan effort to deepen defence ties with Japan made it possible to...
Australia can trust Beijing – to reach right into Australian society
Prime minister Albanese just got back from his fourth meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping...
Oh dear, what have you done to my fleet!? & Is Australia now bandwagoning AND free-riding??
Oh dear, what have you done to my fleet!? & Is Aus | RSS.com The Grumpies go over an Audit report...
We’re letting Xi Jinping weaponise economics all over again
So, prime minister Albanese is in China for his fourth meeting with Xi Jinping, accompanied by a...
What could Anthony Albanese be saying about Taiwan & regional security on his China trip?
Senior figures in the Trump Administration are asking if Australia is committed to deterring...
PM doesn’t get it, but Curtin knew we needed the US
Anthony Albanese’s wildly inaccurate take on John Curtin’s war would fail as an undergraduate...
There’s nothing behind the prime minister’s Curtin
Anthony Albanese has used a speech about our wartime prime minister John Curtin to assert...
How to lose an alliance: PM’s shrinking ambition
"It’s past the point that the failure of Donald Trump and the Prime Minister to meet face-to-face...
Someone is telling China’s story well, but it’s not Ambassador Xiao
Beijing’s representative in Australia, Ambassador Xiao Qian, has just spent 900 words in an...
Is Australia willing to pay the costs of unthethering from America?
As we watch Donald Trump’s unpredictable America bomb Iran, and see Xi Jinping building his...
Needy, dismissive and critical: Australia & the US allliance
The Albanese government’s relationship with the US Trump Administration is a mix of...