War with China is a small but not negligible risk, says former Defence mandarin Mike Pezzullo. But Australia wasted more than a decade in preparing and equipping itself to face the danger

Myanmar’s generals have broken the state, says Nicholas Coppel – in 3 years they’ve caused civil war, economic collapse, a transnational crime wave and millions of internal refugees. China always preferred Aung San Suu Kyi and is even unhappier now

What’s left of Hamas is dug in beneath ruined Gaza. But Israel can’t obliterate their influence on Gaza's future, bleak as that might be, says Rodger Shanahan

Obama administration intelligence insider Robert Cardillo on China, North Korea, the Middle East and the night Osama bin Laden was killed

Shingo Yamagami confronted China’s Wolf Warrior diplomats. Denounced by Beijing, controversial in Canberra and even Tokyo, he’d do it all over again

Alexandre Dayant, whose team tracked $298bn of development aid flows into Southeast Asia, describes the region’s needs and its financiers’ expectations. China is key ...

Xanana Gusmao, likely Timor-Leste’s last leader from the ‘1975 generation’ that won freedom, is driven to harness his tiny nation’s future to Greater Sunrise gas. Michael Leach explains why it’s a critical mission

A second Trump presidency would bring more uncertainty to US-China relations and risk great harm to US interests in the Asia-Pacific, says Dennis Richardson, who led Australia’s Foreign Affairs and Defence departments and was Washington ambassador

Punchada Sirivunnabood explains why Move Forward, Thailand’s surprise election winner,  faces huge resistance from the Senate and military to forming government, let alone realising its policies

Myanmar’s coup has unleashed destructive forces the junta can’t control, while ASEAN is split and impotent to influence events. Charles Santiago, of ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights, believes it’s time China took the lead

From strategic passivity to ‘net exporter of security’ to the Asia-Pacific, in little more than a decade. Michael Green, leading authority on Japanese strategy and politics, explains how that happened

This week on Meridian100, Xi Jinping’s tightening state control and hostility to the private sector is steering the world’s second largest economy into hazardous waters. Yasheng Huang, a leading authority on China’s political economy, says this is playing out in dramatically slowing growth and gradual erosion of political and social stability will follow

Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison discusses the road to AUKUS, the trilateral security pact between Australia, the UK and the US, and his government’s signature foreign policy achievement. Along the way, Morrison talks about the rise of China, foreign interference in Australia, Xi Jingping’s Communist Party and the prospect of war with Beijing over Taiwan.