Yesterday
- Analysis
- Middle East tensions
National security wolves howl at moon over Red Sea warship
Cries of outrage over the decision not to deploy to the Middle East are obscuring questions about Australia’s basic defence capabilities.
- Opinion
- Asia-Pacific
Taiwan: A Trojan horse for Beijing?
Taiwan’s elections next month will once more focus attention on the difficulty of any future move by Beijing to absorb Taiwan.
This Month
- Analysis
- International affairs
Albanese reaches for Keating’s Asian mantle
In a speech that canvassed all the issues on his foreign policy plate, there was one section that stood out.
- Analysis
- Middle East tensions
Is Australia’s delay on US warship request dithering or prudent?
The opposition accuses the government of dithering. But it would be a dangerous mission, and there are powerful historical precedents.
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
US and EU bickering leaves Ukraine adrift
Political bickering in Washington and European capitals over ongoing support for Kyiv appears to presage an even bleaker winter for President Zelensky.
- Exclusive
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Martin Indyk on what happens once Israel’s war is over
The former US ambassador to Israel and peace negotiator says Netanyahu is putting Israel’s relations with the US under extreme pressure and won’t escape a reckoning.
Gareth Evans: Can we rely on America to defend Australia?
The former Labor foreign minister does not hold back in an incisive analysis of the current co-ordinates of Australian foreign policy
- Opinion
- Joe Biden
What happens if Biden were to step aside?
Such an eventuality would upend all calculations in the presidential race here and in the US.
When ‘peacenik’ Whitlam met hardline Kissinger
Henry Kissinger was at the very centre of a diplomatic crisis with Australia in the 1970s – one that nearly ended the alliance.
November
- Analysis
- Vale
Kissinger’s advice to aspiring leaders still holds
The arch foreign policy realist both intrigued and infuriated those around him and so many who have tried to assess his legacy.
- Opinion
- Anthony Albanese
Albanese’s pressing task to hold us together in a fractured age
The prime minister faces growing currents of economic and social disaffection. But is he up to the task of navigating a way through?
- Investigation
- AFR Magazine
The bizarre group of politicians who flew economy to free Assange
Barnaby Joyce, who says he doesn’t “terribly like” Julian Assange, is in an alliance of odd political bedfellows campaigning for the WikiLeaks editor’s release.
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
We need cohesion to compete in a contested region
Australia’s self-image at home has always weighed heavily on our foreign policy and our national security stance.
- Opinion
- China relations
‘Stabilisation’ with China doesn’t mean no surprises
The essence of the matter is that there are always going to be surprises on the strategic front. That doesn’t mean that the government hasn’t been flat-footed.
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
Biden-Xi talks can’t overcome the trust deficit
The sobering reality from the leaders’ meeting is the lack of a binding arrangement that anything they agreed would survive the next American presidency.
- Opinion
- Biden's White House
Why ‘stabilisation’ is a misnomer for Xi-Biden meeting
Given the irritants on the horizon, even if the meeting in San Francisco is relatively cordial, relations are likely to quickly deteriorate amid ongoing strategic competition.
- Analysis
- World politics
Biden-Xi meeting cements APEC’s enduring relevance
APEC remains a key stage on which a Joe Biden-Xi Jinping meeting can occur. A bilateral feast amidst the multilateral gala has always been its great strength.
- Updated
- Opinion
- China relations
The China business case is no longer simple
The PM has come home full of China’s ‘win-win’ rhetoric on trade. But the future is trickier than it was before the trade war.
- Opinion
- China relations
China heaped praise on Albanese. Will it last?
Only the challenges that will surely come can properly test these words of warmth and bonhomie. How this visit will look in a decade is difficult to foresee.
- Analysis
- China relations
Between Chinese grandeur and Australian pragmatism
Paul Keating may have been the first Australian PM to visit China “and remain level-headed throughout”. Anthony Albanese will crave a similar tick of approval.
