The Foreign Policy and Defence Program is committed to providing policy-oriented research and analysis on American strategic policy and the United States-Australia alliance, with a focus on developments in the Indo-Pacific.
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The Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2021 is the eighth in a series of publications from the International Institute for Strategic Studies covering vital strategic, geopolitical, economic, military and security trends in the Asia-Pacific...
Pentagon leaders have recently been at pains to convince the world that China is their top priority. But President Joe Biden’s first defense budget request tells a somewhat different story: For all of the emphasis on...
En route to his first in-person meeting with President Joe Biden this weekend, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called for coordinated action among liberal democracies to compete with China in the Indo-Pacific. His...
Australia has joined a US-led collective of countries blaming China for a massive cyberattack on the Microsoft Exchange mail server back in January.
Chinese security agencies and other criminal groups alleged to have...
When Barack Obama was elected president, many commentators predicted a reversal of the ideologically charged foreign policy of George W. Bush. As the years unfolded, descriptions of President Obama's foreign policy diverged significantly...
In the first of two policy briefs with the NATO Defense College as part of her 2021 NATO Partners Across the Globe Fellowship, Dr Gorana Grgic addresses the strategic quandary that the Indo-Pacific...
Backed by the federal government, telecommunications giant Telstra is in talks to buy mobile networks in six Pacific nations which foreign policy experts believe is designed to block China from acquiring the strategically...
The Australian reports that the Morrison government has moved to accelerate the creation of a $1bn domestic missile production project, issuing a call for industry and academic partners. The article quotes USSC director...
