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Thursday 27 Jul 2017 | 08:21 | SYDNEY
Thursday 27 Jul 2017 | 08:21 | SYDNEY

Empathising with China

By Iain Henry

Syria: A farewell to arms

By Rodger Shanahan

The Australian Intelligence tradition

By Allan Gyngell
Long reads
17 Jul 2017 07:58

The G20 Hamburg riots and the German election

The G20 riots in Hamburg have raised a number of pertinent political questions about domestic security and political extremism in Germany.

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26 Jul 2017 11:01

Home Affairs change driven by manifest need

By Alan Dupont
Are Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's changes to Australia's intelligence and national security arrangements necessary and genuinely transformational, as he claims? Or are they essentially an exercise in political management aimed at burnishing Turnbull's national security credentials and ensuring...

26 Jul 2017 8:47

What NAFTA renegotiation means for Australia

By Stephen Grenville
It was always part of the Trump agenda to do something about the North American Free Trade Agreement (‘one of the worst deals ever’) covering the US, Canada and Mexico: the outcome is renegotiation rather than the threatened termination. The Office of the United State Trade Representative has now...

25 Jul 2017 16:40

Talisman Sabre 17: The realisation of defence strategy

By Greg Colton
It was an Australian Defence Force (ADF) public relation officer’s dream. ABC news footage, delivered directly into the living rooms of Australian families, showed Australian troops and Australian armoured vehicles streaming across the beach and onwards into the hinterland of Queensland. Australian...

25 Jul 2017 14:41

National security changes – Australian style

By Clive Williams
Last week brought what are likely to be two seismic changes to Australia’s security and intelligence community. While the Independent Intelligence Review has been broadly welcomed, reaction to the establishment of a super ministry has been much more mixed even, it seems, within Cabinet....

25 Jul 2017 12:13

Empathising with China

By Iain Henry
The recent presence of a PLA-N auxiliary general intelligence vessel off Queensland has generated some interesting discussions. Euan Graham and James Goldrick are right that the incident undercuts Beijing’s own objections about US close-in surveillance of mainland China. There is no small amount of...

25 Jul 2017 11:34

Syria: A farewell to arms

By Rodger Shanahan
Last week’s confirmation that the CIA-run program to vet and arm Syrian rebel groups in the north of the country was coming to an end was a tacit acknowledgement of the flaws in the scheme. It should also have come as little surprise as, if there has been one thing that Trump has been consistent...

25 Jul 2017 8:46

Thailand: The case for optimism

By Greg Raymond
My ANU colleague Nicholas Farrelly's recent Lowy Institute Analysis 'Thailand's Triple Threat' is a sombre look at Thailand's future. He canvasses bleak scenarios, including the long-term entrenching of authoritarianism or, worse, the break-up of the kingdom. Thailand's current juncture is...

24 Jul 2017 15:35

China’s intelligence gathering at sea: Some implications

By James Goldrick
The reports over the last few days that a Chinese naval intelligence gathering ship (designated an Auxiliary General Intelligence or AGI) has been observed monitoring the bilateral US-Australia Exercise Talisman Saber have contained some surprising elements. These include background comments by...

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