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Can US missile-defence systems handle China’s new missiles? (Malcolm Davis, The Strategist)

A pair of reports in the Financial Times have set the defence community abuzz with the suggestion that China has tested a new hypersonic glide vehicle, possibly with a fractional...

The promise and peril of statistics in Fiji (Mere Nailatikau, The Interpreter)

The 101-page document appeared quietly on the Fiji Bureau of Statistics website in early September. But almost immediately, the 2019-2020 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) Main...

How to save the Summit for Democracy (Ben Scott, The Interpreter)

The future of US democracy seemed in the balance when, in mid-2019, candidate Joe Biden promised to host a “Summit for Democracy” within his...

AUKUS? Quad? FOIP? A fragmented approach cannot counter China (Yatharth Kachiar, Priya Vijaykumar Poojary, The Interpreter)

Although a substantive movement has developed aiming to contain China ­– AUKUS being only the most recent example, adding to the reconstituted Quadrilateral Security...

Protecting people who lose their homes to climate change (Jane McAdam, The Interpreter)

A long-awaited report released last week in the United States by the Biden administration recommends a new legal pathway for humanitarian protection for people facing serious...

Japan’s intensifying refugee debate (Yusaku Yoshikawa, East Asia Forum)

On 10 August 2021, the Immigration Services Agency of Japan (ISA) published its final report on the recent death of a young female detainee from Sri...

Australia still caught up in Biden’s China blame game (James Curran, East Asia Forum)

The spectre of Donald Trump stalks Joe Biden’s White House and other corridors of power in Washington.   A recent Iowa poll showed that Trump would...

West can’t use climate issues as weapon against China in Glasgow (Global Times)

While commending China for its actions in recent years to combat climate change in a speech on Monday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on...

US’ attempt to sow discord won’t break solid China-ASEAN ties (Global Times)

For the first time in four years, the US President took part in a virtual summit with leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian...

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