Hugh White

Mar 18, 2024 | straitstimes.com | Hugh White

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaking with local media during the 2024 Asean-Australia Special Summit in Melbourne, on March 6. PHOTO: EPA-EFE Updated Mar 19, 2024, 05:00 AM Published Mar 19, 2024, 05:00 AM When he invited South-east Asia’s leaders to an Asean-Australia “Special Summit” in Melbourne earlier in March, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hoped to showcase his government’s progress in deepening relations with the region.

Feb 25, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Ange McCormack |Hugh White

7am is a daily news podcast brought to you by the publishers of The Saturday Paper and The Monthly. How to listen? WebsiteEmeritus professor of strategic studies at the Australian National University and contributor to The Saturday Paper Hugh White, on Labor’s navy overhaul and whether it’s an expensive grab for votes. Australia has spent almost 15 years trying to buy new surface ships for the navy, but they are still yet to arrive.

Jan 25, 2024 | straitstimes.com | Hugh White

When he handed over the presidency seven years ago, Mr Barack Obama warned his incoming successor Donald Trump that the most urgent problem he would face was North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile programmes. He saw those programmes as a completely unacceptable threat to America’s security and world peace, but he had failed to stop them. Now it was Trump’s turn.

Nov 29, 2023 | lowyinstitute.org | Hugh White

Few people today can recall the time when Henry Kissinger conceived and executed America’s foreign policy as National Security Adviser and Secretary of State between 1969 and 1977. But what he did then – and not his long decades on the sidelines since – is what counts in assessing his career. So, it’s important, and instructive, to go back and look at that time, following his passing at age 100.

Jun 6, 2023 | straitstimes.com | Hugh White

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s keynote speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore this past weekend was billed in advance as “his most important foreign policy speech of the year”, so expectations were high. As Mr Albanese himself keeps saying, Australia faces “the most challenging strategic circumstances since the Second World War”.