Vladimir Putin’s nuclear sabre-rattling is spooking many in the West,but its main purpose may be to shape the approach of the incoming US president.
Vladimir Putin has lashed Australia in a speech that praised China and castigated the West in another sign of deepening ties between Russia and China.
Since the end of the Cold War,Western nations have largely been able to assume a posture of strategic timidity. Ukraine doesn’t have that choice.
The Russian missile attack on a Kyiv paediatric hospital has brought worldwide condemnation yet Russia blamed Ukraine air defences.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s rejection of an invitation to attend the NATO summit in Washington joins a growing list of dubious decisions.
Anthony Albanese was expected to attend next week’s summit marking NATO’s 75th anniversary but Defence Minister Richard Marles will now travel to the US in his place.
The risk of foreign disruption has to be balanced in such a way that economic activity is not unnecessarily curtailed.
The problem facing Australia’s foreign policy under another Donald Trump presidency? Many of his utterances seem shaped by 1950s American daytime games shows.
The former England left-arm spinner conducted a series of awkward interviews after declaring he would stand as a candidate at the next general election.
The comments come after Trump bragged he once told a NATO member that he would “encourage” Russia to do as it wishes to “delinquent” allies.
Britain’s “Indo-Pacific tilt” is likely to tilt back towards concerns closer to home when Labour takes the reins.