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The biggest current question facing Australia may not be whether it can trust the U.S., but whether it can have the confidence to trust itself.

In contrasting Harris and Trump's platforms there is one commonality: the continued competition with China for global political and economic power, including in the Pacific.

“By understanding how climate is reshaping the global landscape, we can more effectively prepare our forces to operate under changing conditions.”

While India was uneasy about fully adopting the old Washington consensus in the 1980s, Delhi has embraced the new consensus, engaging in initiatives and collaborations that ensure reduced dependency on China.

If Australia and the United States genuinely desire a peaceful Pacific, they must be as enthusiastic about international development in the region as about security cooperation.

The “Semi7” would include countries making meaningful contributions to the semiconductor value chain and that share similar goals.

Both the U.S. and India are exploring additional combinations of partnerships in the MIddle East.

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai insists the United States wants to work with allies to build a better, fairer world trading system.

The trilateral exercise simulated a military response against a North Korean submarine attack.

Pillar II of AUKUS relates to the sharing of advanced technologies and there are good reasons for Wellington to seek access to that part of the pact.

Beyond responding to the China threat, AUKUS is also a tool to maintain U.S. Indo-Pacific engagement through whatever domestic storms are to come in Washington.

History shows us that blithely chasing consensus could lead decision-makers in Washington astray, with disastrous consequences.

Biden and Modi have a robust engagement calendar. The U.S. should leverage these opportunities to develop an ambitious roadmap for deepening defense ties with India. 

Daniel Edmund Duggan, a former U.S. military pilot who ran an aviation consultancy in China, has been arrested on a charge that remains sealed.

The deployment of U.S. power is indeed passing through a phase when it can no longer ignore the tectonic forces of a changing balance of power in the world.

Washington has long accused Beijing of meddling in U.S. political affairs and stealing secrets and intellectual property.

What do hard times in China-US relations portend for other stakeholders in a “free, open, inclusive and rules based” Indo-Pacific, such as India? 

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian's comments underscore the increasingly fractious relationship between Beijing and Washington.

At what point does the pressure generated and sustained by gray zone campaigns escalate?

Currently, 62 percent of Americans see China as a competitor and 25 percent as an enemy.

The U.S. and South Korea each possess unique strengths in combatting cyber-enabled financial crime, but their true joint potential is largely untapped. 

In the mindscape of the U.S. strategic community, China now enjoys the position which the Soviet Union had during the Cold War. Moscow is keen to disrupt that emerging bipolar order.

There is no shortage of challenges in Asia these days, from the pandemic, to Myanmar to increasing U.S.-China tensions.

Countries across Southeast Asia do not wish to be pushed into choosing sides when their economic futures depend on maintaining positive ties with China and the United States.