By any measure Julia Gillard's trip to Beijing was a success. However, her most visionary goal remains unfulfilled.
Simon Cockerell of Koryo Tours on what it's really like to visit North Korea.
China's rise is pushing America and India closer. But are they focusing on the wrong set of challenges?
To understand the real value of the F-35 one must consider its operation as a fleet, not simply as an individual aircraft.
"The history of North Korea suggests that its leadership acts with greatest vehemence when it is internally weak, as a way to justify its economic failures by blaming a foreign conspiracy..."
"We are approaching a point where...the international community will no longer have any realistic option to veto an Iranian decision to build nuclear weapons."
Has China abandoned its "no first use" policy when it comes to nuclear weapons? No, says MIT's M.Taylor Fravel.