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Does the AUKUS submarine deal compromise Australia’s sovereignty? (Stephan Fruehling, The Strategist)

Australia’s decision to acquire nuclear-powered submarines—and the decisions by the UK and US to support that endeavour—is momentous. If we’re looking for reliable and...

How will the Australia–Japan relationship fare under Prime Minister Fumio Kishida? (Tomohiko Taniguchi, The Strategist)

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has elected Fumio Kishida as its new leader, slating him to be the nation’s 100th prime minister. Kishida received...

China military watch (Reginald Lin and Eli Huang, The Strategist)

The careful selection by Chinese leader Xi Jinping of military officers for rapid promotion to key positions in the People’s Liberation Army may signal...

Critical infrastructure legislation should also set the parameters of cognitive security (Pukhraj Singh, The Strategist)

With the heightened threats in cyberspace, the Australian government wishes to hasten the passage of crucial amendments to the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018. The...

Crop Failures in Russia Point to Serious Shortages of Bread and Potatoes Ahead (Paul Globe, The Jamestown Foundation)

For several years, food prices have been rising in Russia, forcing the population to purchase ever cheaper products (Profile.ru, September 20). The government has...

Is Uzbekistan on the Verge of Rejoining the CSTO? (Fozil Mashrab, The Jamestown Foundation)

On September 20, Tashkent hosted a conference on the topic “Russia and Uzbekistan facing the challenges of development and security at a new historical...

Divining the Meaning of Recent Developments on Belarus’s Two Geopolitical Flanks (Grigory Ioffe, The Jamestown Foundation)

As a fairly small (population-wise) country squeezed between Russia and the European Union, Belarus is destined to be a geopolitical tuning fork, whose reactions...

Russia’s Armed Forces Enhance UAV Strike Capability (Roger McDermott, The Jamestown Foundation)

The joint Belarusian-Russian Zapad 2021 combined strategic exercise (sovmestnoe strategicheskoe uchenie), which lasted from September 10 to 16, witnessed numerous tests and experiments involving Russia’s...

The metachallenges of the metaverse (Tom Wheeler, Brookings)

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg told listeners to his July 2021 quarterly earnings call that “I expect people will transition from seeing us as a...

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