How Lithuania is spearheading EU and NATO efforts facing Russia
Mar 04, 2023 12:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views
In 2008, as part of a nation branding exercise an attempt to give a country an easily recognisable identity the Lithuanian communication specialists came up with the slogan Lithuania a brave country. At the time, the...
Ukraine recap: spring comes too early for Putin's tanks
Mar 04, 2023 12:01 pm UTC| Politics
Reading the international press on the first day of spring in Ukraine, it appears that Russia has jumped the gun somewhat in its spring offensive. It has poured troops and armour into an area around the town of Vuhledar...
As Australia's military ties with the US deepen, the Top End becomes even more vital to our security
Mar 04, 2023 11:53 am UTC| Insights & Views
There are several challenges making Australias national security strategy more complicated these days Russias invasion of Ukraine, the impacts of climate change, our green energy transition and economic...
'No indication of aliens': spy balloon saga continues to surprise amid rising US–China tension
Feb 14, 2023 12:54 pm UTC| Politics
Over the past week, the US has realised and revealed that an active fleet of Chinese spy balloons has been operating across the northern hemisphere for several years. This all started to become apparent when a Chinese...
China violated international laws and standards with its surveillance balloon
Feb 10, 2023 06:03 am UTC| Politics
The United States recently shot down a Chinese high-altitude balloon after it apparently travelled from China and flew over Alaska and British Columbia. Its first public sighting was over Montana where it was seen to...
Feb 05, 2023 10:27 am UTC| Politics
Officials of the U.S. Department of Defense confirmed on Feb. 2, 2023, that the military was tracking what it called a spy balloon that was drifting over the continental United States at an altitude of about 60,000 feet....
China is extending its dealings with the Taliban as it increases its superpower status
Feb 05, 2023 04:28 am UTC| Politics
China is one of the few countries that is committed to expanding its dealings with the Taliban government in Afghanistan, where it hopes to expand its use of the vast natural resources while also improving its own...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects