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Australia and South Korea: leveraging the strategic potential of cooperation in critical technologies

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Stepping up military support to humanitarian assistance in the Pacific

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Preventing and countering violent extremism in Africa: mining and Australia’s interests

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Australia has commercial and strategic interests in helping to prevent and counter violent extremism in Africa. Australian mining companies are engaged across the continent in Mali, Burkina Faso, Kenya and many other countries where there have been high-profile terrorist attacks and kidnappings of foreign nationals, including Australians. Those threats already affect the way Australian mining […]

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Using open-source AI, sophisticated cyber ops will proliferate

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Open-source AI models are on track to disrupt the cyber security paradigm.

China is buying less from developed countries, but not Australia

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Australia’s exports to China have not returned to the peaks before the Chinese authorities started imposing discriminatory bans, but they are higher than five years ago, unlike China’s imports from every other major advanced economy. Although there is no official campaign to curb access of western exporters to Chinese markets, there has been a marked shift […]

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Image: Poyang lakebed amid severe drought in August 2022. Only two years ago, the farmland visible lay along the banks of what was China’s largest freshwater lake. Satellite image collection and analysis by Nathan Ruser, ASPI ICPC. Source: ESA via Google Earth Engine.Image: Poyang lakebed amid severe drought in August 2022. Only two years ago, the farmland visible lay along the banks of what was China’s largest freshwater lake. Satellite image collection and analysis by Nathan Ruser, ASPI ICPC. Source: ESA via Google Earth Engine.

Assessing the groundwork: Surveying the impacts of climate change in China

The immediate and unprecedented impacts of climate change are…
Image: Poyang lakebed amid severe drought in August 2022. Only two years ago, the farmland visible lay along the banks of what was China’s largest freshwater lake. Satellite image collection and analysis by Nathan Ruser, ASPI ICPC. Source: ESA via Google Earth Engine.Image: Poyang lakebed amid severe drought in August 2022. Only two years ago, the farmland visible lay along the banks of what was China’s largest freshwater lake. Satellite image collection and analysis by Nathan Ruser, ASPI ICPC. Source: ESA via Google Earth Engine.

A shift to Asia won’t solve Russia’s economic woes

Russian President Vladimir Putin sought this month to contrast…
Image: Poyang lakebed amid severe drought in August 2022. Only two years ago, the farmland visible lay along the banks of what was China’s largest freshwater lake. Satellite image collection and analysis by Nathan Ruser, ASPI ICPC. Source: ESA via Google Earth Engine.Image: Poyang lakebed amid severe drought in August 2022. Only two years ago, the farmland visible lay along the banks of what was China’s largest freshwater lake. Satellite image collection and analysis by Nathan Ruser, ASPI ICPC. Source: ESA via Google Earth Engine.

China’s Gorbachev phobia

There was a time when well-meaning, if not wishful-thinking,…
Image: Poyang lakebed amid severe drought in August 2022. Only two years ago, the farmland visible lay along the banks of what was China’s largest freshwater lake. Satellite image collection and analysis by Nathan Ruser, ASPI ICPC. Source: ESA via Google Earth Engine.Image: Poyang lakebed amid severe drought in August 2022. Only two years ago, the farmland visible lay along the banks of what was China’s largest freshwater lake. Satellite image collection and analysis by Nathan Ruser, ASPI ICPC. Source: ESA via Google Earth Engine.

Seeing the CCP’s external influence work through Beijing’s eyes

The Chinese government’s aggression towards Taiwan has highlighted…
Image: Poyang lakebed amid severe drought in August 2022. Only two years ago, the farmland visible lay along the banks of what was China’s largest freshwater lake. Satellite image collection and analysis by Nathan Ruser, ASPI ICPC. Source: ESA via Google Earth Engine.Image: Poyang lakebed amid severe drought in August 2022. Only two years ago, the farmland visible lay along the banks of what was China’s largest freshwater lake. Satellite image collection and analysis by Nathan Ruser, ASPI ICPC. Source: ESA via Google Earth Engine.

India’s window of opportunity to counter China’s influence in South Asia

Political dynamics in South Asia have been garnering fresh…
Image: Poyang lakebed amid severe drought in August 2022. Only two years ago, the farmland visible lay along the banks of what was China’s largest freshwater lake. Satellite image collection and analysis by Nathan Ruser, ASPI ICPC. Source: ESA via Google Earth Engine.Image: Poyang lakebed amid severe drought in August 2022. Only two years ago, the farmland visible lay along the banks of what was China’s largest freshwater lake. Satellite image collection and analysis by Nathan Ruser, ASPI ICPC. Source: ESA via Google Earth Engine.

Burgeoning ties between Beijing and Ankara create an existential problem for the West

It’s easy to attribute all the problems and changes in Turkey…
Image: Poyang lakebed amid severe drought in August 2022. Only two years ago, the farmland visible lay along the banks of what was China’s largest freshwater lake. Satellite image collection and analysis by Nathan Ruser, ASPI ICPC. Source: ESA via Google Earth Engine.Image: Poyang lakebed amid severe drought in August 2022. Only two years ago, the farmland visible lay along the banks of what was China’s largest freshwater lake. Satellite image collection and analysis by Nathan Ruser, ASPI ICPC. Source: ESA via Google Earth Engine.

South Korea seeks closer strategic links with Australia

Little noticed publicly in either Australia or South Korea,…
Image: Poyang lakebed amid severe drought in August 2022. Only two years ago, the farmland visible lay along the banks of what was China’s largest freshwater lake. Satellite image collection and analysis by Nathan Ruser, ASPI ICPC. Source: ESA via Google Earth Engine.Image: Poyang lakebed amid severe drought in August 2022. Only two years ago, the farmland visible lay along the banks of what was China’s largest freshwater lake. Satellite image collection and analysis by Nathan Ruser, ASPI ICPC. Source: ESA via Google Earth Engine.

What does India want from Russia?

If there was a prize for the most quotable comment on international…
Image: Poyang lakebed amid severe drought in August 2022. Only two years ago, the farmland visible lay along the banks of what was China’s largest freshwater lake. Satellite image collection and analysis by Nathan Ruser, ASPI ICPC. Source: ESA via Google Earth Engine.Image: Poyang lakebed amid severe drought in August 2022. Only two years ago, the farmland visible lay along the banks of what was China’s largest freshwater lake. Satellite image collection and analysis by Nathan Ruser, ASPI ICPC. Source: ESA via Google Earth Engine.

Xi’s guns of August

Much of the foreign-policy conversation in the United States…
Image: Poyang lakebed amid severe drought in August 2022. Only two years ago, the farmland visible lay along the banks of what was China’s largest freshwater lake. Satellite image collection and analysis by Nathan Ruser, ASPI ICPC. Source: ESA via Google Earth Engine.Image: Poyang lakebed amid severe drought in August 2022. Only two years ago, the farmland visible lay along the banks of what was China’s largest freshwater lake. Satellite image collection and analysis by Nathan Ruser, ASPI ICPC. Source: ESA via Google Earth Engine.

What Australia must do next on Taiwan

Whatever we make of the visit to Taiwan by US congressional…
Image: Poyang lakebed amid severe drought in August 2022. Only two years ago, the farmland visible lay along the banks of what was China’s largest freshwater lake. Satellite image collection and analysis by Nathan Ruser, ASPI ICPC. Source: ESA via Google Earth Engine.Image: Poyang lakebed amid severe drought in August 2022. Only two years ago, the farmland visible lay along the banks of what was China’s largest freshwater lake. Satellite image collection and analysis by Nathan Ruser, ASPI ICPC. Source: ESA via Google Earth Engine.

Taiwan shows a tango of engagement and deterrence against isolation and coercion

Like his strategic partner Vladimir Putin in his horrific war…
Image: Poyang lakebed amid severe drought in August 2022. Only two years ago, the farmland visible lay along the banks of what was China’s largest freshwater lake. Satellite image collection and analysis by Nathan Ruser, ASPI ICPC. Source: ESA via Google Earth Engine.Image: Poyang lakebed amid severe drought in August 2022. Only two years ago, the farmland visible lay along the banks of what was China’s largest freshwater lake. Satellite image collection and analysis by Nathan Ruser, ASPI ICPC. Source: ESA via Google Earth Engine.

Policy, Guns and Money: Australia in space, India–China relations and digital Southeast Asia

As Australia’s space sector grows and continues to build…
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Cybersecurity by executive order

Today ASPI has released a Strategic Insight on President Obama's…
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Remembering roles and responsibilities in big data, cybersecurity

Last week, David Schaefer introduced an interesting new dimension…
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Special Report – Compelled to control: conflicting visions of the future of cyberspace

This report looks at the desire among states for greater control…
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Polarised cyber perspectives in the Asia-Pacific: what’s the ARF to do?

This post will be the first of a three-part series based on my…
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Cyber wrap

Welcome to the first weekly roundup of cyber security news. Each…