'Three potential reasons come to mind for readopting "US Pacific Command" and its abbreviation "PACOM", replacing "INDOPACOM". The first, and most likely, is to take the stated reason on face value. It’s a nod to history,' writes Colin Karotam.
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'All of these bodies are run by local people of Chinese ethnicity, not necessarily from China. The statements are issued only in Chinese, and all reflect CCP messaging from the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification,' writes Geoff Wade.
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'In the decade ahead, the real test will not simply be whether agencies know more; it will be whether they can turn knowledge into real decision advantage before someone else does,' writes Chris Taylor.
'Whatever the machinations in Washington, the latest move fits a trend towards greater national control of the most powerful technology the world has ever seen. Australia must do all it can to make sure we are not left behind,' writes David Wroe.
'Under the leadership of Xi Jinping since 2013, China has steadily extended its presence across the Indian and Pacific oceans, building relationships and gaining access far from home waters,' write Joe Keary, Raji Rajagopalan and Linus Cohen.
'Since the Cold War ended, our attention has drifted away from nuclear weapons, but they again require our close attention and preoccupation,' writes Paul Dibb.
'Australia faces a choice about where sovereignty is non-negotiable. In those domains –particularly at the critical layers of the AI ecosystem – reliance on negotiated access is a risk, not a strategy,' writes Jamie Morse.
'The United States, Europe and Australia increasingly demand supply-chain transparency, while China increasingly treats it as a national security issue,' writes John Coyne.
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When then secretary of defense Jim Mattis changed the name of US Pacific Command to ‘Indo-Pacific Command’ in 2018, he said the command boundaries stretched from Bollywood to Hollywood and from polar ...
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The national intelligence community (NIC) has spent the past quarter-century building effective collection, processing and analytic capability. But if intelligence arrives in the wrong form, at the wr...
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The Trump administration and AI giant Anthropic are at it again. In the latest stoush, the administration claims that security risks in the company’s new models have forced Washington to apply export ...
China’s security footprint was once confined to its immediate neighbourhood. That time is now past. Under the leadership of Xi Jinping since 2013, China has steadily extended its presence across the I...
In late February, the United States and Russia found themselves without an agreement about the disposition of their major strategic nuclear weapons for the first time in more than 20 years. The previo...
Two recent events have exposed the reality that access to critical systems is not governed by markets or partnerships, but by sovereign authority. These events – the United States’ forced withdrawal o...
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Australia’s economic security debate still focuses on the physical elements of supply chains: mines, ports, processing plants, shipping routes and stockpiles. Beijing has moved further. China increasi...
