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Russia can’t fight Ukraine without North Korea’s help: Zelensky
Kyiv’s long-range strikes on oil refineries in the heart of Russia prompted Moscow to increasingly rely on North Korean ...
No location · Aug 11, 2026 · WedgetailPutin’s Political Longevity – A Framework of Considerations
Historic economic and social conditions point to a change of leadership in Russia, but a triggering event is still on th...
No location · Aug 10, 2026 · WedgetailBookshelf: How Xi Jinping broke the China dream
When China’s supreme leader Deng Xiaoping in December 1978 announced the ‘reform and opening’ of China’s economy, many e...
No location · Aug 10, 2026 · WedgetailNational Capital District governance needs a review of local representation
The National Capital District (NCD) is Papua New Guinea’s political, administrative and economic centre. As Port Moresby...
No location · Aug 10, 2026 · WedgetailIs Ukraine Drifting Towards Groupthink on European Integration?
Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum,...
No location · Aug 10, 2026 · WedgetailThe Houthis’ External and Internal Crises Converge: Can a Tactical Solution Fix a Strategic Problem?
As they fire dozens of ballistic and cruise missiles against Saudi-led coalition forces in Yemeni government-controlled ...
No location · Aug 10, 2026 · WedgetailAmerica, North Korea, and the Search for Peace
The South Korean Buddhist monk, the Venerable Pomnyun Sunimin, in his book “What is Happiness?” introduces us to his phi...
No location · Aug 10, 2026 · WedgetailInternational lunar consultations: future-looking developments at the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
The UN's Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Space established an "action team" in 2024 to study how to coordinate lunar a...
No location · Aug 10, 2026 · WedgetailAnti-corruption sanctions: Preparing for the time after Trump
Anti-corruption sanctions—and even the prospect of them—under the next US administration will be crucial to chances of p...
No location · Aug 10, 2026 · WedgetailUnification Minister walks back push to call North Korea by its official name
Public discussion should precede any move by the South Korean government to refer to North Korea by its official name, D...
No location · Aug 10, 2026 · WedgetailUS Sanctions Iranian $6bn Crypto “Exchange” Shelbit
TRM Labs explains that sanctioned Iranian firm Shelbit was a fake crypto exchange
No location · Aug 10, 2026 · WedgetailWhy Military Cooperation in the Indian Ocean Still Falls Short
The United States has bluntly signaled a deprioritization of the Indian Ocean at a peculiar time. The reversion of U.S. ...
No location · Aug 10, 2026 · WedgetailWhy Conflict Gold Sanctions Fail
In April 2026, over a month after the United States launched its attack on Iran, leading to thousands of reprisal strike...
No location · Aug 10, 2026 · WedgetailTo Lam comes to Australia, wanting to keep Vietnam’s options open
Vietnam’s Communist Party chief and president, To Lam, has arrived for his first state visit to Australia since becoming...
No location · Aug 10, 2026 · WedgetailRussia to deploy up to 50K North Korean soldiers to fight Ukraine: Zelensky
Russia is gearing up to deploy as many as 50,000 North Korean soldiers against Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelen...
No location · Aug 10, 2026 · WedgetailAustralia must not be distracted as China ramps up in the South China Sea
The global pressures of 2026 have created no shortage of distractions. An increasingly interventionist US administration...
No location · Aug 10, 2026 · WedgetailThe real Thucydides trap is inside Western tech
The following is a speech delivered by ASPI executive director Justin Bassi at the Australian Defence Science, Technolog...
No location · Aug 07, 2026 · WedgetailHow Can U.S. Special Operations Forces Help Defeat China on Taiwan?
It is conceivable that in one blistering campaign, the People’s Republic of China could invade, occupy, and forcibly ann...
No location · Aug 07, 2026 · WedgetailLatin America’s new imaginaries
Mark Leonard welcomes Adriana Abdenur and Jorge Castañeda to discuss how China is reshaping the political imagination of...
No location · Aug 07, 2026 · WedgetailThe authoritarian axis looms over wars in Ukraine and Iran
China’s reported sale of shoulder-launched missile systems to Iran should be concerning not just to the United States bu...
No location · Aug 06, 2026 · WedgetailQ&A: What is in China’s new five-year plan for climate change?
China has released a five-year plan dedicated to addressing climate change. The 15th five-year plan for a national respo...
No location · Aug 06, 2026 · WedgetailTrust the numbers: Germans are open to a more hawkish China policy
ECFR polling suggests significant public support not only for tougher German policy on China but also for investment in ...
No location · Aug 06, 2026 · WedgetailHamas has agreed to disarm. Israel should now agree to peace
Despite all odds, there is now a realistic path towards ending the war in Gaza. Its success now depends on Israel. Europ...
No location · Aug 06, 2026 · WedgetailA battle for supremacy has laid Sudan and its capital to waste
The country’s future depends on events beyond its borders, as well as within them
No location · Aug 06, 2026 · WedgetailSeoul’s restoration of inter-Korean railway could still reap benefits: experts
South Korea’s plan to resume work next year on restoring the southern section of the Gyeongwon Line, a railway line that...
No location · Aug 06, 2026 · Wedgetail63 North Korean defectors enter South in first half of 2026: Seoul
Sixty-three North Koreans defected to South Korea between January and June, a roughly 34% decline from the same period l...
No location · Aug 06, 2026 · WedgetailThe Blood Price: In Israel, Military Sacrifice Is Becoming Political Power
In late June, cadets at the Israeli military’s officer training school sat through a lecture by Ofer Winter, a retired b...
No location · Aug 06, 2026 · WedgetailRussia to deploy North Korean missile unit and launchers to Ukraine border: Kyiv
North Korea could soon send a dedicated missile unit to a western Russian region bordering Ukraine, according to Kyiv’s ...
No location · Aug 06, 2026 · WedgetailInstrumentalised Migration and Russia’s ‘Disposable Agents’
Instrumentalised migration and Russia’s recruitment of disposable agents exploit the same European weakness: treating de...
No location · Aug 05, 2026 · WedgetailAfter Ceuta, Europe is once again mired in migration chaos of its own making
Anti-immigration critics seized on the Ceuta migrant situation as evidence of the failure of soft policies, but in reali...
No location · Aug 05, 2026 · WedgetailFault Lines – Scarborough Shoal, South Korea at RIMPAC, shipriders
Welcome to the latest edition of ASPI’s Fault Lines. Every fortnight, ASPI’s Defence Strategy Program monitors the actio...
No location · Aug 05, 2026 · WedgetailBeyond Hormuz: The Future of Maritime Chokepoints
Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz and efforts to extract payments for safe passage — plus, more recently, the Houth...
No location · Aug 05, 2026 · WedgetailThere Will be Unseen Costs to be Paid over the War in Iran. Who is Weighing Them?
EXPERT INTERVIEW – With an interim agreement expected as early as today between the U.S. and Iran aimed at reopening the...
No location · Aug 05, 2026 · WedgetailImmigration Policy: The Backdoor to Transnational Repression
Citizen Lab researchers write that restrictive immigration policies are incompatible with attempts to counter transnatio...
No location · Aug 05, 2026 · WedgetailUnification Minister urges South Korea to stop calling North the ‘main enemy’
South Korea should ditch its designation of North Korea as the “main enemy,” Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said ...
No location · Aug 05, 2026 · WedgetailVietnam to honor North Korean pilots killed in war with first-ever memorial
Vietnam will build its first memorial honoring North Korean troops who died during the Vietnam War and restore an existi...
No location · Aug 05, 2026 · WedgetailWhy Trump’s Israel Normalization Demand May Kill the Saudi Nuclear Deal
Only days after the Trump administration celebrated what it called a landmark civilian nuclear agreement with Saudi Arab...
No location · Aug 05, 2026 · WedgetailNorth Korea threatens response to Japan’s arms buildup ahead of Asian Games
Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, on Wednesday threatened Japan for transforming i...
No location · Aug 05, 2026 · WedgetailBeyond the Output Trap: Haiti and the Future of International Stabilization
Five years after the assassinations in Haiti of Monferrier Dorval, Diego Charles, and Antoinette Duclaire, justice remai...
No location · Aug 05, 2026 · WedgetailJerome Sauvage on North Korea’s crises, contradictions and quiet moments
Former U.N. official Jerome Sauvage joins this week’s podcast to discuss his new book, Witness to North Korea: Three Yea...
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