Australia’s strategic culture is ill-suited for long-term national security due to overreliance on the US and lack of industrial capacity to support defence capabilities.
The securitization of environmental crises rarely results in extraordinary political measures due to the risks associated with mobilising such actions.
China’s policy stems from its rivalry with the US and desire to act as an independent mediator in the Middle East, as well as Xi’s operational code and public opinion.
The divide stems from China and India’s respective national interests: China seeks greater global influence, while India deems BRI a looming threat to its sovereignty.
The display of Bullwinkel’s dress is a symbol of the gap between wartime experiences and their commemorative representations.
For India, non-alignment followed by no retaliation in the war represents the Subgame Perfect Equilibrium, balancing diverse interests in a complex geopolitical context.
China’s education diplomacy in CARs elucidates the intricacies of building cultural affinity, the nuances of alignment, and the synergy between hard and soft power.
Particularly in the case of de facto states, non-formal recognition practices can play a major role in constructing sovereignty and statehood for the territory in question.
Claims of China’s Debt Trap Diplomacy stem from a Western bias against China and China’s opaque lending practices, but there is little evidence such claims are factual.
The contradiction between China’s discourse on and practices of sovereignty constitutes a form of ‘organized hypocrisy’, explicable by the logic of capitalist expansion.
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