16 Dec 2025
Leveraging Taiwan: India’s strategic counterbalance to China
Record trade and closer ties with Taipei mark New Delhi’s shift from caution to assertiveness.
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27 Nov 2025
From Kabul to Kyiv, Trump’s pattern is clear – negotiate with enemies, sideline allies
Australia and other partners must plainly see that America’s commitment to defending democracies is fading fast. -
12 Nov 2025
Will North Korea defend China in a Taiwan war?
Pyongyang’s contribution to Moscow’s war against Ukraine means a difficult question needs to be asked in the event shooting starts. -
21 Oct 2025
What Trump told Albanese about Taiwan matters more than AUKUS
False confidence can breed dangerous assumptions in any US stand-off with China. -
7 Oct 2025
Taiwan’s main threat isn’t military – it’s media speculation
Every headline becomes a crisis, every policy shift becomes abandonment. Taiwan deserves reporting that resists speculation. -
3 Oct 2025
America’s EV plan needs Southeast Asia more than it admits
Unless the US wants to pay more and wait longer, it should secure trusted capacity from non-Chinese supply chains. -
1 Oct 2025
Manila’s lonely island at the centre of Taiwan contingency planning
At the Philippines’ northernmost point, troops guard waters that could determine Taiwan’s fate. -
12 Sep 2025
Taiwan's diplomacy doesn't have to come from the government
City-to-city agreements are creating small but powerful connections for Taiwan in ways its national officials cannot. -
22 Aug 2025
Chips made Taiwan indispensable. AI can make it unstoppable.
Taipei’s semiconductor leadership creates opportunity for broader international influence through artificial intelligence infrastructure and governance. -
24 Jul 2025
In Taiwan, the drills are routine. So are citizens’ movements
Why isn’t the region paying more attention to the most significant political event of the year? -
26 Jun 2025
Former president Ma Ying-jeou’s latest visit and Taiwan’s China divide
Why culture falls short in cross-Strait relations. -
11 Jun 2025
Taiwan’s Africa gambit
In a world where power is defined by networks rather than borders, Taipei’s quiet diplomacy is making headway. -
27 May 2025
The CPTPP dilemma: Economic merit versus geopolitical calculation
Trade arrangements work best when not hostage to security concerns. -
26 May 2025
Is Taiwan prepared to fight for itself?
What Taiwan must prove to keep the support of friends. -
15 May 2025
The Beiping model: How China could absorb Taiwan without a war
Victory can be achieved through the slow erosion of political cohesion, without triggering a Western military response. -
4 Apr 2025
What’s in a name? China tests Trump’s resolve on Taiwan
Beijing is seeking to normalise pressure on Taipei and at the same time see just how transactional the United States has become. -
29 Jan 2025
How much of the world really backs Beijing’s claim to Taiwan?
The widespread adoption of Beijing’s stance might constrain US-led deterrence efforts and could provide the PRC with extra licence to escalate military aggression. -
18 Dec 2024
What I’ll be watching for in 2025
Lowy researchers gaze at their crystal balls – with questions, more than answers, for the year ahead. -
16 Dec 2024
Taiwan and Ukraine: Learning the right lessons
The Ukraine experience has turbocharged Taiwan's learning about modern war. -
25 Sep 2024
Bargaining chips: What the Vance Doctrine means for Taiwan
With Taiwanese chips integral to the US economy, the would-be vice president is promoting his own brand of restrained nationalism. -
12 Sep 2024
The implausibility of a Taiwan blockade
If all-out war is an inevitable consequence of a blockade, why wouldn't China cut to the chase and start the war immediately? -
10 Sep 2024
Beijing’s "one-China principle" is spreading
It is untrue that Taiwan is an "inalienable part" of China, but that's not stopping governments from Kiribati to Honduras from saying it. -
26 Aug 2024
The right side of history: Taiwan and its “real estate”
Democratic freedoms in Taiwan have been hard won and deservedly supported strongly by Australia. -
14 Aug 2024
No, Taiwan is not PRC real estate
There is no legal or moral justification to not support Taiwan’s survival as a democracy. -
26 Jul 2024
Why Taiwan should embrace multiculturalism
With a birth rate below replacement level, Taipei has many reasons to boost its workforce from Southeast Asia. -
9 Jul 2024
China-Taiwan, and a Vatican conversion
A shift in diplomatic recognition by the head of the Catholic church would carry global consequences. -
20 Jun 2024
How Taiwan fights the disinformation war
Newly inaugurated president Lai Ching-te will need to collaborate inside and outside the state to counter China’s cognitive warfare. -
22 May 2024
We can help keep Taiwan safe by deepening engagement
As new Taiwan President William Lai takes office, Australia and partners should support democratic Taiwan in maintaining regional peace. -
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2 May 2024
Fostering Indigenous cooperation between Australia and Taiwan
Understanding only grows with knowledge of rich histories and traditions that extend back thousands of years. -
24 Apr 2024
Three factors hardening China’s stance on Taiwan
Beijing might not soon invade, but its “grey-zone” threats are set to escalate. -
23 Apr 2024
In the Olympics of Drag, Taiwan just took the gold
Nymphia Wind’s victory on RuPaul’s Drag Race is historic, with implications for Taiwanese politics and international relations. -
17 Apr 2024
Why China remains unlikely to invade Taiwan
Xi Jinping didn't reach the top of Chinese politics by gambling. -
13 Mar 2024
Understanding China’s efforts to bridge the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait disputes
Regional problems are challenging enough without lumping them together. -
12 Feb 2024
What constrains and restrains China on Taiwan?
This is the better question to ask when assessing the prospects of a war over the Strait in the coming decade. -
5 Feb 2024
From “poop diggers” to allies: Chinese social media reacts to Nauru’s switch
Echoes of past positions continue to influence views of the Pacific Island nation. -
22 Jan 2024
Taiwan: To what good is the status quo?
The global system is caught short while China enforces the absurdity that Taiwan cannot be considered a country. -
11 Dec 2023
The Beijing blowback should Australia get closer to Taiwan
Bilateral initiatives are not the only way for Australia to bolster Taiwan and signal its support. -
11 Dec 2023
Don’t let China veto Australia’s ties with Taiwan
Canberra should not let increased trade and political engagement with Taipei be held hostage to Beijing’s sensitivities. -
24 Nov 2023
China and Taiwan are big Pacific donors – but not for gender equality
More clarity on the flows of funds would help to assign what little credit is due. -
15 Sep 2023
Beijing’s plan for Taiwan challenges its offshore wind push
Fujian’s coast hasn’t kept up with wind power in other provinces – and military strategy seems to be blowing the other direction. -
15 Aug 2023
Pipe dreams: Turning an interconnected ASEAN gas market into a reality
An old idea for a regional network might hold the answer for energy demand into the future. -
17 Jul 2023
The emergence of “collective strategic ambiguity” on Taiwan
With a change in language, has Washington over-promised on its allies’ appetite for conflict with China? -
6 Jun 2023
US-China: A Cold War lesson to apply “rules of the road” at sea
Soviet and American warships had a code to prevent dangerous encounters and the US and China should have the same. -
18 May 2023
Why the WHO needs Taiwan
Taiwan’s early warning and pandemic response should be offered as a model to the world, not hostage to China’s whim. -
26 Apr 2023
The two big flaws in Penny Wong’s talk of deterrence over Taiwan
It’s wishful thinking to dismiss debate on the most difficult and important foreign policy question as a “parlour game”. -
13 Apr 2023
Taiwan: Far from lost in translation, Macron said exactly what he meant
The French President’s comments are the latest example of his consistent call for Europe to set its own path. -
22 Mar 2023
AUKUS commits Australia to fight China if America does, simple
Whatever the flag, Washington would not sell nuclear-powered boats unless it could count on them in war over Taiwan. -
6 Feb 2023
A Chinese invasion of Taiwan isn’t inevitable
The logistics pose a momentous challenge. And more so, Xi Jinping knows a war will entail enormous costs. -
1 Feb 2023
Indonesia gets the ball rolling on domestic worker rights
Jakarta’s call to legislate its informal workforce should be a model for all countries that receive migrant workers.