A media cold war is being fought with drones and balloons
Isabelle Zhu-Maguire In unison with other western media outlets, the BBC covered the recent collision between a US drone and a Russian...
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- Mar 21
- 4 min
AUKUS: the dawn of a new strategic era
Isabella Baker Australia is set to embark on its most significant strategic, economic and technological challenge of the century: to...
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- Mar 17
- 4 min
Plastic pollution treaty: UN negotiations promising but still uncertain
George Yankovich One of the most unusual phenomena of the Anthropocene is a geological formation known as a plastiglomerate. It is...
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- Mar 15
- 5 min
A game of wei qi in the Middle East: China’s cyber diplomacy
Ryan Davis Cyberspace is an increasingly significant domain for states’ strategic outlooks. Defined by its lawlessness and chaos, this...
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- Mar 8
- 7 min
The Rising Temperature and Tensions in the Arctic
Hannah Scallion Soldiers crunch snow underfoot, heavy treaded tyres roll over ice, giant nuclear-armed submarines emerge from underneath...
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- Mar 8
- 6 min
StarTimes and China’s push into Africa’s media landscape
Samuel Ng “China in Africa” has been a highly contentious debate in Western policy circles over the past years. But Beijing has long...
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- Mar 5
- 5 min
Post-Covid Hong Kong: no longer “Asia’s World City”
Samuel Ng Emerging from the pandemic, Hong Kong struggles to re-market itself after a difficult three years of protests, political...
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- Mar 3
- 4 min
Ukraine War Marks Watershed Moment for Democracies
Isabella Baker As the world marks the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we can ask, are liberal democracies finally...
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- Feb 23
- 3 min
Book Review: Tides that Bind: Australia in the Pacific
Declan Hourd Tides that Bind: Australia in the Pacific is a short but passionate declaration that advocates for Canberra to improve its...
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- Feb 23
- 6 min
China’s 20th Party Congress: Exploring the key takeaways and broader significance for Australia
Calvin Lu and Patrick Hession From 16 October to 22 October 2022, the world turned its eye to the 20th National Congress of the Chinese...
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- Feb 12
- 6 min
Out with the old, in with the new: alternative energy sources in the Middle East and North Africa
Dominique-Dee Jones This article was originally published in the YDS 2022 Year in Review Special Edition. Read it and other articles...
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- Feb 6
- 4 min
Sunak’s Broken Britain
Samuel Ng This article was originally published in the YDS 2022 Year in Review Special Edition. Read it and other articles here. Leaping...
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- Jan 30
- 3 min
Finland’s PM calls on Australia to confront Putin’s ‘dark agenda’
Isabella Baker In the first visit to Australia by a serving Finnish Prime Minister, Sanna Marin’s speech at the Lowy Institute in Sydney...
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- Dec 5, 2022
- 5 min
Strategic ambiguity – a Cold War fossil
Samuel Ng The coming years are crucial in determining Taiwan’s future. The island stands at a cross-roads, with the direction to be...
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- Nov 27, 2022
- 6 min
China’s “railpolitik” into Central Asia
Samuel Ng The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway (CKU) provides an alternative to the Russia-reliant China-European Railway (CER), the...
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- Nov 23, 2022
- 4 min
Understanding the Dynamics of Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea
Niranjan Jose The Gulf of Guinea (GoG), a 4,000-mile-long area in West Africa that stretches from Guinea to Angola, is a vital marine...
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- Nov 21, 2022
- 9 min
Xi Jinping’s “unprecedented” third term: the unknown consequences for China & (possibly) the world
Patrick Hession The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (NCCPC) - a week-long conclave that establishes the CCP’s...
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- Nov 18, 2022
- 5 min
Honour killings in post flood Pakistan
Eliza Wilson Pakistan is grappling with an increase in honour killings amid the recovery from a monumental natural disaster. What are...
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- Nov 15, 2022
- 7 min
The 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections: A beginner’s guide
Shajara Khan On an episode of ‘Political Experts React’ hosted by ‘Pod Save America’, guest expert Sarah Longwell, founder of the...
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- Nov 14, 2022
- 4 min
Historicising the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Dominique Jones The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and its complex history Intermittent violence has punctuated the Nagorno-Karabakh region,...
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