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The cost of Defence: ASPI Defence Budget Brief 2025-2026

Building national preparedness: A road map for Australia and what we should learn from Finland

Shifting the needle: Making Australia’s research security ecosystem work smarter

Since 2018, the Australian Government has made serious strides in countering espionage and foreign interference, including introducing policy and legislative reforms aimed at protecting the research and university sector. That was necessary. Foreign states have actively targeted Australia’s research ecosystem—seeking to influence research agendas, extract sensitive information and exploit institutional vulnerabilities. However, the threat landscape […]

North of 26 degrees south and the security of Australia: views from The Strategist, Volume 11

The Northern Australia Strategic Policy Centre’s latest report, North of 26 degrees south and the security of Australia: views from The Strategist, Volume 11, contains articles published in ASPI’s The Strategist over the last six months. Expanding on previous volumes, this edition introduces thematic chapters focused on a range of subjects relevant to northern Australia. […]

A contested Asia: What comes after US strategic predominance? (Part 1)

Those who indulge in the phoney debate about the need for an…

Learning lessons, not scoring points, from the Doklam standoff

The 10-week-long standoff between Chinese and Indian forces in…

The end of Asia’s strategic miracle?

It is too soon to know whether and how the challenge posed…

Asia’s hierarchies of humiliation

Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a standoff in…

Xi Jinping’s Marco Polo strategy

Last month, Chinese President Xi Jinping presided over a heavily…

Can China take advantage of America’s strategic deficit in Asia—and mind its own, too?

America’s strategic deficit in the Asia–Pacific region…

Tolerance and intolerance in international affairs

It’s tricky. On one hand, moral superiority can lead dangerously…

Remembering K.M. Panikkar: the future of Western influence in Asia

Over 20 years ago, at a conference in Sydney hosted by the Australian…

Shock at Trump, shrill at China

The shock of Donald Trump has prompted Australia to become shriller…

ASPI suggests

A joint investigation run by Four Corners and Fairfax into Chinese…

Accidental friction on the Belt and Road

President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has…

Malcolm Turnbull on Asia’s times and Trump’s Hunger Games

‘In this brave new world we cannot rely on great powers to…

A contested Asia: What comes after US strategic predominance? (Part 1)

Those who indulge in the phoney debate about the need for an…

Learning lessons, not scoring points, from the Doklam standoff

The 10-week-long standoff between Chinese and Indian forces in…

The end of Asia’s strategic miracle?

It is too soon to know whether and how the challenge posed…

Asia’s hierarchies of humiliation

Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a standoff in…

Xi Jinping’s Marco Polo strategy

Last month, Chinese President Xi Jinping presided over a heavily…

Can China take advantage of America’s strategic deficit in Asia—and mind its own, too?

America’s strategic deficit in the Asia–Pacific region…

Tolerance and intolerance in international affairs

It’s tricky. On one hand, moral superiority can lead dangerously…

Remembering K.M. Panikkar: the future of Western influence in Asia

Over 20 years ago, at a conference in Sydney hosted by the Australian…

Shock at Trump, shrill at China

The shock of Donald Trump has prompted Australia to become shriller…

ASPI suggests

A joint investigation run by Four Corners and Fairfax into Chinese…

Accidental friction on the Belt and Road

President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has…

Malcolm Turnbull on Asia’s times and Trump’s Hunger Games

‘In this brave new world we cannot rely on great powers to…