This policy brief first explains the challenges related to Chinese international students and then specifies policy recommendations to deal with these concerns.

Academic staff at Australian universities have been targeted in Chinese social media campaigns after complaints from Chinese students that their teaching material was 'offensive.'

Overview Once again, Trump has broken the mould. The 100-day mark is traditionally used to assess a new administration’s progress in advancing its policy agenda. With Trump, that’s impossible. In foreign policy at least, it’s more appropriate to ask whether at the 100-day mark the Trump administration is any closer to actually having a policy...

Forging an effective U.S strategy in Southeast Asia starts with understanding the region from the inside out. Only with deep knowledge of the goals, perceptions, hopes, and intentions of Southeast Asian countries themselves can Washington craft policies that further U.S national interests, help stabilise the region, and continue the peace and prosperity that has characterised...

This paper examines how financial constraints in the United States are affecting its effort to 'rebalance' towards Asia and the implication for Australia. Executive summary Western military spending has stabilised and in some cases declined after a period of rapid growth over the past decade, but this is not only a function of austerity. An...