International students are leaving Australian universities in droves, and yet the federal government is simply looking the other way, Tahmina Rashid writes.

In the short term, a successful COVID-19 response and recovery will allow China to temporarily strengthen its position, but in the long term, its problems aren’t going anywhere, Stephen R Nagy writes.

While foreign policy objectives are designed to achieve a state’s interests, those interests also involve addressing global challenges like the vaccine shortage, Olga Krasnyak writes.