Stephen Moran is an independent trade analyst. He was Senior Trade Analyst in the Office of National Assessments from 2010­ to 2021. Before that, he held various trade policy roles in the Department ...

Bill Bishop an entrepreneur and former media executive with more than a decade’s experience living in and working in the PRC. He writes the Sinocism Newsletter, a daily publication about China, that ...

Spain’s refusal to sign on notwithstanding, NATO has committed to spending five per cent of GDP on defence. That involves some creative accounting by including ancillary areas such as cyber and ...

Military tensions across the Taiwan Strait continue to increase. China’s People’s Liberation Army has stepped up exercises simulating blockades, showing Beijing’s growing pressure. Against this tense ...

Joseph Chinyong Liow is Tan Kah Kee Chair Professor of Comparative and International Politics and Dean at the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Nanyang Technological University ...

An unusual kind of tension is brewing in Northeast Asia. In a first, China deployed its Liaoning and Shandong aircraft carriers to the Pacific, generating fresh friction with Japan. The Chinese ...

It’s the mid-2030s, and China’s growing network of dual-use ports and airfields has reshaped the South Pacific’s security landscape. Ostensibly, civilian projects now dot the region – but behind the ...

Dr Anupama Vijayakumar is a Co-founder and Director of Trivium Think Tank, Thiruvananthapuram, India. Her research focuses on the role of science and technology in driving great power competition in ...

The second vector of competition is institutional. Europe faces a concerted Russian campaign to degrade its regional institutions and sow discord among their members. Australia looks to a set of ...

The prime minister John Howard’s invocation of ANZUS after the attacks of September 11, 2001, and Australia’s subsequent commitments to America’s military action in Afghanistan and Iraq, featured ...

Henry Yep is a China specialist with 19 years of experience at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). In June 2025, he began serving as a branch chief in DIA’s China Mission Group (CMG), where he ...

As chair for 2025, Malaysia is steering the Association of Southeast Asian Nations under the theme “Inclusivity and Sustainability.” This marks Malaysia’s fifth term at the helm since ASEAN’s founding ...