Unmarried, same-sex partners of foreign diplomats have 30 days to get married or face deportation from the US.

What amounts to bringing about the “end of history” by repetition has been a persistent temptation for neocons.

A Korean deal based on flattering Donald Trump as a useful idiot will not hold.

Arguments that Australia can relax about not having a US ambassador put a brave face on what is a missed opportunity.

Talks rest on South Korea’s Moon Jae-in persuading the US and North Korea to join a “declaration-for-declaration” deal.

Blasting the Islamic Republic is low-hanging fruit for an embattled President to please his base ahead of midterms.

<p>Despite new policy moves, the Trump administration's space policy is poorly defined and could stoke conflict.</p>

The growing American interest in India has led to optimism for future cooperation – but significant hurdles remain.

Pregnant mothers seeking US citizenship for kids raises compelling questions about belonging but is hardly nefarious.

He gave in to the worst of the American right, but in media memory, John McCain represents an earlier Republican party.

A solid Republican with a maverick streak, McCain was a tireless advocate of strong alliances, including with Australia.

A new study attempts to put a number on the ongoing cost of an enormously costly episode of misguided policies.

Trump has called Putin a “good competitor” and warned about China, but Moscow has reasons to keep Beijing on side.

While there is fresh impetus to resolve the US–North Korean conflict, a treaty remains as bewildering as ever.

Dealing with North Korea has never been easy, but the US and South Korea have differing priorities in the negotiations.

It should concern Australia that Trump treats his potential enemies better than his loyal long-time friends.

Encouraging indigenous innovation is laudable but should not be conflated with technology nativism and protectionism.

Contrast gains from US interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, with Russia in Georgia, Syria and Ukraine.

The first significant pro–New Zealand legislation since the Senate ratified the ANZUS treaty in 1951 has been passed.

Donald Trump has leverage. Pyongyang wants something he has to help with the parlous state of the North Korean economy.

Hopes are high of returning home the long-lost war dead, but commemoration and remembrance are emotionally charged.

<p>When a US president’s policies are indistinguishable from the KGB heirs’, the world is indeed turned upside down.</p>

When Nazis proudly march in America’s southern cities, do we really need comedians to point out how bad people can be?

<p>Pyongyang, always keen observers, are seeking to bypass the US bureaucrats and appeal directly to Donald Trump.</p>

<p>With two-and-a-half years still to go in Trump’s first term, this level of outrage just cannot be maintained.</p>

<p>The Helsinki Summit was judged as a&nbsp;spectacle, far more than on what the talks were supposed to deliver.</p>

If America’s allies in Europe were ever in doubt, now they know: the President is a US-only leader.

In his trade war, Donald Trump’s maximum pressure tactics look likely to prove highly counterproductive.

The summit with Putin reflects an ongoing US strategic failure to learn to think how Moscow thinks.

Whereas in 1996 America’s affirmations of support for Taiwan were genuine, they are now a bluff.

<p>Australia’s public diplomacy is not advanced by excluding women and failing to recognise diversity.</p>

South Koreans don’t see how destructive and divisive Donald Trump is, nor is it their concern with North Korea so close.

Despite the much-trumpeted summit, Kim Jong-un does not seem to be honouring his end of the deal.

<p>A politically stupid choice as next US Ambassador to Australia would hurt public confidence in the relationship.</p>

For perhaps the first time, major players in Korean affairs all seem to share an interest in removing foreign forces.

The US decision to walk away has made it harder for like-minded countries such as Australia to promote human rights.

The US is in trade rows with all of its major trading partners at once.

Battening hatches and waiting for the Trump storm to pass is hardly a pragmatic solution to concerns of a world in flux.

Lost trust between leaders and policy concerns under Trump have hardened into an existential crisis.

China’s political elite know that this is only the beginning, but have several reasons to be pleased.

The real agenda in US–North Korea talks may be economic and political, rather than about arms.

The South Korean President’s shuttle diplomacy may fracture his relationship with the US.

The jogging bodyguards alongside Kim Jong-un’s limousine are more than a charade.

<p>Donald Trump deserves credit for creating a moment that could – maybe – escape the madness of destruction.</p>

Donald Trump has a unique chance to turn negotiations to his advantage and that of about 2000 survivors of the A-bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki who wound up in North Korea.

How The Interpreter has followed a remarkable few months of on-again off-again diplomacy.

The US Secretary of Defense fleshed out the Trump administration’s “free and open Indo-Pacific” strategy with aplomb.

The US and North Korea are far apart, but look beneath the surface and there is a chance for agreement.

US credibility has taken a significant hit, with broader impacts for Washington’s relationships in Northeast Asia.

While China forges ahead with lunar plans, America regresses.