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Australia is happy for a closer alliance with the U.S. But it will always be based on Canberra’s best interests.

Maintaining a nuclear arsenal is expensive. Emphasizing this could be one way of discouraging some nations.

There’s much pessimism surrounding this week’s scheduled talks over Iran’s nuclear program. But a quid pro quo approach offers a solution.

Shared wariness over China is the main reason the U.S. and Vietnam have embraced each other. But it shouldn’t be the only one.

The standoff between a Philippine warship and Chinese ships is a reminder of South China Sea tensions.

The U.S. and Australia have made clear their distrust of one of the world’s biggest telecoms companies. But their lack of transparency over their concerns does no one any favors.

Economies need to get back basics – education, access to capital, rule of law, and labor mobility. Slowing growth in China and India makes clear that consumers are the key to prosperity.

With both cyber and technology, outsiders tend to overstate how driven by the center China really is.

If the West wants to turn the screws on Iran’s regime it must do more to ensure that it isn’t hurting the Iranian people.

The United States places a $10 million bounty on Pakistan-based terrors suspect Hafiz Mohammad Saeed.

Japan says its SDF is preparing “destruction measures” against potential North Korean ballistic missiles.

North Korea’s vow to launch a satellite next month has flummoxed some observers. But unless China steps in forcefully, everything will go according to Pyongyang’s plan.