Introduction Consistent with a partnership that’s focused on the development of defence and technological capability rather than diplomatic grandstanding,1 there have been few public announcements about the progress of AUKUS. That’s an observation we made in our first AUKUS update in May,2 and one we make again in this latest update, one year on from the joint […]
The geopolitical implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Background The eminent Harvard University professor of Ukrainian history, Serhii Plokhy, observed that Russia’s occupation of Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk in 2014 raised fundamental questions about Ukraine’s continuing existence as a unified state, its independence as a nation, and the democratic foundations of its political institutions.1 This created […]
What’s the problem? The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using technology to enforce transnational digital repression and influence unwitting audiences beyond China’s territory. This includes using increasingly sophisticated online tactics to deny, distract from and deter revelations or claims of human rights abuses, including the arbitrary detention, mass sterilisation and cultural degradation of minorities in […]
This report is a part of a larger online project which can be found on the Xinjiang Data Project website. What’s the problem? The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has committed well-documented and large-scale human rights abuses against the Uyghurs and other indigenous minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) that amount to crimes against humanity. […]
The cost of Defence ASPI defence budget brief 2022–2023 One hundred & thirty-three million, one hundred & ninety-one thousand, seven hundred & eighty dollars & eighty-two cents per day. Executive summary Shortly before the recent election, the previous government released a defence budget that continued its record of delivering the funding it promised in the […]
What’s the problem? Enabled by digital technologies and fuelled by geopolitical competition, hybrid threats in the Indo-Pacific are increasing in breadth, application and intensity. Hybrid threats are a mix of military, non-military, covert and overt activities by state and non-state actors that occur below the line of conventional warfare. The consequences for individual nations include […]
An analysis of non-Australian government funded parliamentary travel between 2010 and 2018 This ASPI report uses the information Members and Senators disclose on the Federal Registers of Interests to analyse the top funders of our Federal parliamentarians’ overseas travel. It shows that, over the period 2010-2018 Federal parliamentarians received 102 sponsored trips to Israel, 63 […]