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Since 2010, the proportion of secondary students studying Chinese, Japanese or Indonesian has fallen 25 per cent, to just 3.3 per cent.

Speaking the region’s language: Why fluency is our new front line

With university enrolments in South-East Asian languages in freefall, Labor is investing in the migrant-run weekend schools that have kept these tongues alive.

  • Rob Harris

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‘Be very realistic’: Defence expert on the new world order – and Indonesia’s rise

Professor Hugh White, our leading defence and intelligence analyst, discusses Australia’s national security in the shadow of Trump’s foreign policy shift.

  • Greg Callaghan
The B-21 Raider stealth bomber is unveiled.

Should Australia spend $30 billion on these ‘very cool’ stealth bombers?

B-21 bombers would be costly and controversial but could reach as far as mainland China, providing Australia with a potent long-range strike capability.

  • Matthew Knott
Illustration by Dionne Gain.

Apologising for China’s delinquency? We’ll be sorry

With encouragement from apologists, Australia and others have given China an inch. But the ‘rising fascist power’ has taken a mile and will be hard to constrain.

  • Peter Hartcher