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India, China and finger pointing climate politics (Arti Betigeri, The Interpreter)

Two weeks of negotiations in Glasgow meant that COP26 resulted in a resolution – of sorts. Nations agreed to resume next year with stronger...

Maldives: India first or India out? (David Brewster, The Interpreter)

Recent protests in Maldives against India’s influence in the country calling for “Indian military out” has led the Maldives government to respond by reiterating...

The revenge of the Scholzomat (Marcus Colla, The Interpreter)

“Today is essentially Christmas and a birthday in one for you, and yet you seem about as euphoric as an English butler at teatime,”...

Regulating unmanned underwater vehicles in Indonesian waters (Taufik Rachmat Nugraha, The Interpreter)

According to the Indonesia Ocean Justice Initiative, between 2018 and January 2021, a large number of Chinese vessels “deactivated” their AIS transponders – the...

Why improving Vietnam–UK relations matters for the Indo-Pacific (Bill Hayton, The Strategist)

Vietnam’s prime minister, Pham Minh Chinh, made a very successful trip to the United Kingdom in early November, putting the rapidly improving relations between...

Australia’s ASEAN worker scheme and Southeast Asia’s migrant labour dilemma (M Niaz Asadullah, The Strategist)

Covid-19 has disrupted labour markets around the world, causing a global manpower shortage. Lockdowns in the early months of the pandemic triggered an exodus of millions...

Too soon to be waving the White flag on China (Peter Jennings, The Strategist)

In The Australian newspaper on Monday, Hugh White gave us a picture of democratic defeat in the face of overwhelming Chinese dominance should war break out over Taiwan. ‘Going...

Is Pakistan heading down the same path as Afghanistan? (Mohammed Ayoob, The Strategist)

Recent events in Afghanistan and their fallout in Pakistan clearly demonstrate that the problems plaguing the two countries can’t be separated. That the trajectories...

Pegasus spyware and the direction of Australian policing (Teagan Westendorf, The Strategist)

The US government’s recent ban of Israeli technology firm NGO Group’s Pegasus spyware has significant implications for Australian efforts to regulate digital technologies in...

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