Stephen Grenville's intervew with Sebastian Mallaby covered Trump, the US Federal Reserve, what the RBA can learn from America and how Trump might interact the World Bank and IMF.

Young people, previously taught to observe some principles in fighting, are growing up amid conflict without rules.

Our contribution should meet the need expressed by the commander, stay for as long as is necessary, and contribute to military and political success.

America’s alliances are not much of an asset at all in managing relations with China. Indeed they are in many ways a net liability, because the benefits they offer are offset by the costs they impose.

US Freedom of Navigation Operations, Australia and Europe react to Belt and Road, the future of globalisation, and more.

My research into how diplomatic missions use Facebook has identified four forms of communication that Ambassadors can attempt.

Putin must now be tempted to suspect that God is a Russian; or at least on the side of his righteous and much maligned compatriots.

The selection of Mischief Reef raises the question as to what particular freedom of navigation the US was seeking to exercise.

At international meetings of this kind, especially with China absent, the views of the US still tend to be hard to resist.

Relations with China are chilly but have not descended into conflict, US relations are stable, and there has been some promising global outreach for Taiwan.

This week's links include Australia's crackdown on 'fake refugees', US officials on Manus Island, and working to pre-empt disaster displacement on Myanmar and Vanuatu.

There is a hard road ahead to bring the TPP11 into force. Our best hope is that Japan’s leadership on this issue continues.

A broader use of Australia’s ‘declared areas’ legislation should be considered.

In the late 1970s, when deciding how to respond to asylum seekers arriving by boat, the government said Australia had a commitment to provide 'sanctuary to genuine refugees within its territory'.

This week's links include the role for religious leaders and churches in climate change strategies, PNG pollies taking to social media, and the end of RAMSI on the Solomons.

Reviewing an absorbing new collection of essays from an impressive array of former soldiers, military historians, and academics.

Even under revitalised leadership, there are significant geopolitical and domestic constraints on Seoul’s room for manoeuvre with North Korea.

Jakarta's governor Ahok has been jailed for blasphemy, but that doesn’t mean Islamists are on the march in Indonesia.

The G7 meeting comes at a time when economic globalisation is widely said to have stalled, if not moved into reverse, but there is plenty of data that suggests otherwise.

A magisterial volume, destined to be the authoritative work on US strategy toward Asia for many years to come.

If India does not move to protect its equities, South Asia could soon fall under the sway of China's rapidly expanding maritime power.

In recent years China has demonstrated its ability to divide Europeans by creating new entities such as the 16+1 mechanism.

Regardless of whether Australian forces are enlisted in any anti-Iran campaign, there is a risk that our troops, aircraft or ships in the Middle East may find themselves targeted in any Iranian retaliation.

Perhaps practical policy-makers might be tempted to cut the Gordian knot by imposing capital controls, especially for short-term volatile capital inflows (leaving characteristically-stable foreign direct investment untouched).

Xi Jinping’s 'Asia for Asians' slogan may ultimately come to fruition.

One should also be wary of using the result to forecast Iranian policy direction given the circumscribed powers of the president.

Australia can attempt to define its engagement with the initiative while it is still early days, or it can stick to playing by rules written by others.

It remains to be seen whether this new phase of ties between the Gulf states and Israel can expand beyond the informal and the unofficial level.

This vote for Rouhani sends a clear message to the Supreme Leader’s office that Iranians want economic prosperity brought about by peaceful re-engagement.

The Belt and Road Forum, what to make of Trump and Russia, a new refugee programme, and more.

Recent infrastructure developments in the Philippines and Malaysia suggest our Belt and Road expectations should be reined in.

By taking on the FBI, Trump looks like repeating Nixon’s Watergate actions in ways that should truly alarm him – and hearten his opponents.

In the unprecedented chaos that is the Trump presidency, the apparent swing back towards Saudi Arabia seems abnormally normal.

The Chinese Government took its digital diplomacy to a new level this month in order to promote One Belt One Road.

This week's links include private sponsorship plans in Australia, the increased rate of US federal immigration arrests, immigration in the UK election, and concerns about a growing slave trade.

It’s easy to overlook an event that perhaps offers Turnbull his best shot at his own regional legacy this term – the summit of Southeast Asian leaders in Sydney next March.

Erdogan was forced to concede on almost everything, even withstanding Trump’s repeated mispronunciation of his name during the press conference.

The snub demonstrates Beijing now has another diplomatic tool in its arsenal.

Most of the most serious consequences have occurred not because of Trump’s actions. But as a result of leaks from within the US intelligence community and the White House.

The drama reflects one of China's truths: it relies on the moral compasses of Party bureaucrats to fight corruption rather than a robust legal system.

Demolition work will soon begin at the Manus Island detention centre while an economist urges PNG's politicians to consider the informal economy in the run up to the election.

President Trump doesn’t quite seem to appreciate the need for a nuanced approach to managing competing international obligations.

WHO’s survival will depend on the incoming DG's ability to improve its reputation and raise core funding from national governments, particularly the US.

Private sponsorship and other pathways should be in addition, not an alternative, to existing refugee places provided by governments.

Too many trade negotiators share the Trump mindset, counting success in terms of how many export-promoting elements are embodied in these bilateral and plurilateral FTAs.

Washington has repeatedly signalled to Tehran that the days of the Obama détente are a thing of the past.

'This is an incredibly interesting but also challenging time for Australia's Vietnamese diaspora.'

Though it was clear that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would not be attending, China expected at least a ministerial level summit participation from India.

In China and beyond, BRI mobilises diverse agents to participate in trans-boundary and networked governance arrangements, indirectly seeding state transformation in other jurisdictions and territories.

Abrupt swings in policy direction in Asia are detracting from already diminished stocks of US trust and credibility.