Thanks team UK! It was ASPI’s pleasure to host Sir Stephen and team to discuss all things AUKUS - as described by Sir Stephen, the security initiative is the most important in decades and its success will support the security of 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸 respectively & collectively. Watch here 👇

Speaking at ASPI yesterday, the 🇬🇧 Prime Minister's Special Representative on AUKUS, Sir Stephen Lovegrove, outlined the 🇬🇧's strategic rationale for joining AUKUS and argued that the partnership will strengthen security in the Indo-Pacific. Hear more 👉 bit.ly/44TVpXQ

This The Sydney Morning Herald article features Sir Stephen Lovegrove's conversation with Justin Bassi on the AUKUS partnership 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸 and its role in strengthening global security. Watch it online ↪️ bit.ly/44TVpXQ Listen to the podcast ↪️ bit.ly/4luQDWQ smh.com.au/politics/feder…

This Guardian Australia report covers Sir Stephen Lovegrove’s remarks at ASPI this week on the 🇺🇸 AUKUS review, the need for strong public advocacy for the agreement, and why 🇦🇺 and 🇺🇸 should consider appointing dedicated AUKUS reps. 📺: bit.ly/44TVpXQ theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

National security isn’t what it used to be—and that’s the point | Justin Bassi and Dr John Coyne | bit.ly/44L8m56

'Achieving modernity and avoiding strategic naivety requires a national security strategy that sees the world as it is and adapts to global change, not one that is so inert that it becomes outdated,' write Justin Bassi and @johncoyne15. aspistrategist.org.au/national-secur…

François Godement Michael Kovrig Juliette Odolant 📡 China’s pressure on Australia hasn’t vanished—it has evolved. Justin Bassi, Executive Director of the ASPI, reveals how Australia’s policies may have turned a blind eye on China’s coercive strategy. 👇

A pleasure to write for Institut Montaigne_EN's latest ‘China Trends’. Timely during PM Albanese’s trip to 🇨🇳. “The era of seeing China through the narrow lens of economic opportunity ended long ago. Where Beijing breaches international rules or is aggressive, it must be called out.”

China is still coercing Australia—with implicit threats | Justin Bassi | bit.ly/4lDbpn1

During his remarks at ASPI last week, Sir Stephen Lovegrove discussed the potential benefits of 🇦🇺 and the 🇺🇸 appointing dedicated AUKUS representatives, suggesting it would be helpful to see similar roles established within both systems. 🎥 Watch online: bit.ly/44TVpXQ

'Where Europe brings institutional and financial depth, Australia offers partners a pioneering aptitude and alertness to national security policy,' writes Bart Hoogeveen. aspistrategist.org.au/australia-wins…

'Canberra gives the impression that punishment is coercion only when it’s in effect—so, now that Beijing has restored trade rights and ministerial communications, coercion has ended,' writes Justin Bassi. aspistrategist.org.au/china-is-still…

Thanks for the chat, Sarah Morice. Engagement with economic partners is good. But a clear-eyed approach of due diligence & public transparency is required to engage a strategic adversary. And an economic relationship doesn’t wash away security threats. Just ask Europe about 🇷🇺.

Yes, the US has changed—because the world has changed | Raquel Garbers and Justin Bassi | bit.ly/40qgxT7

Great piece Justin Bassi & Raquel Garbers. Focusing exclusively on our annoyance with Washington, means Beijing wins. We play down Beijing’s decades-long campaign of hostility, we invite worse aggression & we undermine the alliance. The US being wrong doesn’t make China right.

NEW PODCAST 📢 In the latest episode of Stop the World, Justin Bassi and david wroe unpack Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s visit to 🇨🇳, 🇺🇸 President Donald Trump’s overdue but welcome change of heart on support for 🇺🇦, and clashes in 🇸🇾. 🎧 Listen 👉 bit.ly/4lZysbn

Some 🇨🇦 & 🇦🇺 joint work to outline that, yes, 🇺🇸 has changed—because the world has changed. As Raquel Garbers & I write: "For too long the rest of us took for granted that 🇺🇸 would just accept the global security burden while we accepted economic benefit from Moscow & Beijing.”

Interested in the week’s big global issues? Dave & I discuss 🇺🇸, 🇷🇺, 🇮🇱 & why 🇦🇺 PM Albanese’s visit to 🇨🇳 is itself not a problem but the approach risked: - being used for propaganda; - trade becoming dependence; - prioritising short term economics over security & human rights.