One question that 2025 may begin to answer is whether the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) is ...

The past year brought a renewed focus on Australia’s deteriorating security situation and maritime capability. Despite the ...

Originally published on 6 September 2024. Republication of this report today follows news on 6 January 2025 that the US ...

In a year in which political incumbents around the world were either voted out of office or forcibly removed from power, one ...

Among the most complex foreign policy challenges facing President Donald Trump following his inauguration on 20 January will be relations with China and the US’s position relative to Taiwan. Perhaps ...

China’s aircraft industry celebrated Mao Zedong’s birthday in style, unveiling three aircraft developments that will comprise ...

Indonesia’s new president, Prabowo Subianto, needed only three weeks in office to make three big concessions to China. In a joint statement with President Xi Jinping in Beijing on 9 November, ...

Deployments of ships and aircraft to challenge China’s illegal claims in the South China Sea are increasing. European ships ...

Other than the Middle East, the world faces the possibility of two major wars escalating in Europe and East Asia, over ...

Recent wargames using artificial-intelligence models from OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic revealed a troubling trend: AI models ...

Australian communities are teetering on the edge of a second methylamphetamine crisis that, if not addressed urgently, will lead to widespread health and safety issues. To deal with this ...