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Seismic opportunity for Myanmar as earthquake exposes deeper wounds (Win Maw – East Asia Forum)

(Win Maw - East Asia Forum) A 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on 28 March 2025, deepening an already dire humanitarian crisis after years...

Making sense of Trump’s tariffs (Peter Warr – East Asia Forum)

US President Donald Trump's Liberation Day tariffs significantly undermined business certainty and trust in the United States as a trading partner. To respond effectively,...

Tariffs and terrorism are derailing China- India rapprochement (Chietigj Bajpaee – The Interpreter)

India’s nascent rapprochement with China is being derailed by two Ts: tariffs and terrorism. When both countries announced their border agreement in October last...

Australia-China: Port visits can manage tensions (James Laurenceson, Xi Chen – The Interpreter)

Chinese ship visits to Australia don’t always generate alarm and controversy. Last Friday, Hobart hosted the arrival of Chinese ice-breaker Xue Long 2, more...

Explaining Xi’s PLA purges (Michael Clarke, Jade Guan – The Interpreter)

Over the past year, China’s President Xi Jinping has undertaken two waves of purges of high-ranking military leaders from the People’s Liberation Army. The...

No Russia in Papua: Indonesia’s quiet diplomacy speaks loudly (Hangga Fathana – The Strategist)

Indonesia’s low-key rejection of reported Russian interest in military basing in Papua says more than it appears to. While Jakarta’s response was measured, it...

Australia (still) needs a dedicated and public-facing national security adviser (Danielle Cave – The Strategist)

In the early months leading up to the 2025 federal election, Australia’s public debate was dominated by domestic issues with the ‘cost of living’...

Ukraine’s air force has survived. Taiwan’s almost certainly couldn’t (David Axe – The Strategist)

The Ukrainian air force went to war against invading Russian forces in February 2022 with just 125 combat aircraft concentrated at around a dozen...

Competition in cyberspace: a distorted representation (Julia Voo, Virpratap Vikram Singh – IISS)

Over the past two decades, state-linked efforts to shape and influence cyberspace have grown significantly in scale, targeting and impact, driven in part by...

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