Saudi meddling in neighbouring Yemen has again come unstuck.

China has become an increasingly important player in the heart of post-communist Europe.

The UK can still have a voice in global issues by concentrating a diminished military closer to home.

Updates on issues across the aid and development sector.

Climate change negotiations might be moving slowly, yet Australia is excluding itself from the conversation.

Bitcoin's price remains aloft, like cartoon character Wile E. Coyote, suspended in mid-air after running off a cliff.

The mood in Canberra has soured toward China. That ill feeling is being reciprocated.

A collective amnesia appears to have taken hold about the wisdom of standing up yet another militia.

The week that was on The Interpreter.

Xi Jinping's administration is risk averse on domestic economics, but the opposite on domestic economics.

Evaluating intelligence and why questions about Donald Trump's ties to Russia won't go away.

UK and Australian angles on foreign investment are becoming more alike, driven in both countries by the same policy perplexity.

How long can a mantra of one country, two systems survive?

The time may be ripe for punitive actions to call Hun Sen’s bluff.

The White Paper relegated gender equality as a development issue, rather than a strategic priority.

A run-down of how The Interpreter has debated Chinese influence in Australia.

Bringing in other states with significant regional interests, such as the UK, may help the quadrilateral security dialogue.

It is no secret that the PNG economy is facing some very tough times.

Why has the ‘rules-based order’ concept become so prominent in Australian policy?

Forget the China-US economic comparison. Will Australia cope when Indonesia's economy is bigger?

Pacific island links from The Interpreter team.

Relative decline of the US means it makes sense for Australia to engage the UK in the Asia Pacific.

There are few limits on means and plenty of opportunities to manipulate politics via social media.

Australia already has adequate counter-espionage laws to target the sinister and untoward elements of influence.

We may again fail to grasp how quickly changes in relative economic weight translate into changes in the balance of power.

A stocktake of the many levels of cooperation would help both countries learn and identify gaps.

Aid and development links from The Interpreter team.

Sinai's precarious security situation can be expected to become an even greater threat.

Australia seems ambivalent about the UN role in the rules based order.

Exploring the pitfalls of measuring China's economy against Americas.

Tensions are high. But when in the history of Indonesian Papua have they not?

Britain can learn from complex challenges faced by an Australia that is economically dependent on China.

This White Paper is, as it ought to be, full of tension between history and geography.

As German leaders mull new elections or minority government, French President Emmanuel Macron waits impatiently.

Coy about China, the government studiously avoids any sense of alarm about the region.

We know almost nothing about North Korean special operations, but Saddam Hussein used similar assassination techniques.

The week that was on The Interpreter.

The assumption that China can be encouraged into a ‘more responsible role’ is ill-founded.

Four schools of thought seek to explain the general's objectives in Rakhine State.

The White Paper diminishes and stifles Australia's international development story.

Tiny island nations and Australia alike will benefit from intimate ties.

Rare access to Yemen's badlands reveal the human and economic cost of the conflict.

Turnbull's remarks were anything but bland and innocuous.

Rachael Buckland, a Research Associate with the Migration and Border Policy Project, with links on developments across the field.

The obvious headline on China and US rivalry only masks a deeper unease captured by the Foreign Policy White Paper.

Australia’s position as the world’s largest coal exporter does not sit easy with many Pacific Islanders.

The two-degree target is way beyond reach on the International Energy Agency’s base scenario.

Euan Moyle,an intern with the Pacific Islands Program, with links on developments across the Pacific.

On academic endeavours, Western and Chinese universities want to have their cake and eat it too.

The bitter feud between Australia and Timor Leste is edging closer to resolution.