Fault Lines 016: Sea power, do power
Mr. Putin goes to Iturup | America’s Pacific carrier gap | NZ space sector in crosshairs
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Fortnightly insights from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute on the actions shaping the regional order and Australia's security.
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Fault Lines 015: Whatever floats your boat
Seoul takes the wheel at RIMPAC | The intensifying dispute over Scarborough Shoal | Solomon Islands signs US shiprider deal
Fault Lines 014: From sea to sea
Takaichi reforms budget for defence industry | US Coast Guard squadron to Singapore | PNG evicts Taiwan representatives
Fault Lines 013: Infrastructural megalomania
CCG sustain presence east of Taiwan | Southeast Asia thinks big on infrastructure | Australia’s Pacific pacts
Fault Lines 012: Building bridges
Russia-North Korea land bridge nears completion | China sanctions Philippine defence minister | Tug-of-war over Bougainville independence
Fault Lines 011: Better late than never
Tokyo and Manila move to sort out EEZs | Norway apologises for blocking Malaysian NSM purchase | Quad to upgrade Fiji’s ports
Fault Lines 010: In the shadow of a summit
The inter-Korean passport problem | Myanmar’s junta makes gains at the border | Nauru’s ‘One China’ line
Fault Lines 009: Water hazards
North Koreans march for Russia’s Victory Day | The other Thailand-Cambodia border crisis | Fiji’s struggle with the drug trade
Fault Lines 008: Corridors of power
Japan deregulates defence exports | Beijing’s game in Myanmar | Vanuatu-China treaty on the horizon
Fault Lines Special Edition: National Defence Strategy 2026
Selected ASPI commentary and analysis on Australia’s new defence strategy
Fault Lines 007: Wheeling and dealing
South Korea’s force restructure | Indonesia’s art of the deal | US Marianas footprint under pressure
Fault Lines 006: Money maketh the missiles
Japan goes long on precision strike | Standoff at Sabina Shoal | Vanuatu seeks climate justice
Fault Lines 005: Missiles, Morotai, Minerals
THAAD out of Korea | Indonesia’s future military training complex on Morotai | Mr. Brown goes to Wellington
Fault Lines 004: Friendly world, hard edges
Missiles on Yonaguni by 2030 | EDCA review talk in Manila | Pacific defence ministers meet in Tokyo
Fault Lines 003: Grey zones, grey money
Japan kicks off the Takaichi era | Thai-Cambodia ceasefire frays | Palau powerbroker barred from US
Fault Lines 002: Purges, Paparo, patrol boats
Japan's air and sea approaches under Russian and Chinese pressure | Myanmar's junta wins sham election | A new era for Australia-Timor Leste relations?
Fault Lines 001: New year, new trade war
Beijing-Tokyo stoush continues | Fishing at Scarborough Shoal reels in a Chinese warship | New speedboats for Solomon Islands police