Just released! “The Future of Intelligence Analysis: AI and Human-Machine Teaming” reflects the work that the #SCSPTech’s Intel Panel has conducted in collaboration with ASPI, drawing on discussions from a series of workshops. You can read here: scsp.ai/resource/scsp-…

USISPF held its inaugural edition of the #IndoPacific Security Dialogues - a monthly webinar series on geostrategic conversations focused on the Indo-Pacific. The first episode explored "The #Quad: Looking Forward" on the 20th anniversary of the grouping. The Quad arose from a

It was great to be a part of the inaugural edition of the #IndoPacific Security Dialogues and no better topic to kick them off than the Quad - hopefully we’ll see a leaders’ meeting in the margins of this month’s UNGA. 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇯🇵🇮🇳 Thanks to the team at US-India Strategic Partnership Forum for organising.

Ahead of tomorrow’s 🇦🇺-🇯🇵 2+2 foreign & defence ministers’ meeting, Alex Bristow 史德礼 & I write that it should be seen as an opportunity to call out China’s aggressive behaviour, specifically the provocative military incursions into Japanese territory. ⤵️ aspistrategist.org.au/wong-and-marle…

‘They should use the opportunity to call out China’s aggressive behaviour… laying down a marker that such breaches of international rules will be met by a collective response’, write Justin Bassi & Alex Bristow 史德礼 ahead of the 🇦🇺-🇯🇵 2 + 2. Read ⤵️ aspistrategist.org.au/wong-and-marle…

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Excellent to see the media & 🇦🇺 govt address the security threat of China’s incursions into Japan’s territory at today’s 🇦🇺-🇯🇵 2+2 ministerial meeting. These international rule breaches must not be tolerated & collective responses are most effective in holding regimes to account.

Published research on ASPI Strategist finds Australia’s big battery projects may be tied to Uyghur forced labor. Stricter due diligence is needed to protect human rights in the push for clean energy, write Tilla Hoja, david wroe & Justin Bassi aspistrategist.org.au/australias-cli…

New research with Tilla Hoja & david wroe: big battery projects in 🇦🇺 are likely using materials sourced through forced Uyghur labour in 🇨🇳. Despite what is publicly known, 🇦🇺 governments & companies in almost all states are engaging suppliers linked to human rights abuses. ⤵️

I bet this is not just an #Australian problem: The #slavery problem of big electrical #batteries #Xinjiang #Uyghurs aspistrategist.org.au/australias-cli…

The current leaders of the Quad will hold one last meeting in Wilmington, Delaware, Biden's home city, on Sept. 21 sources told Nikkei. A highly symbolic Quad meeting in Sunnylands, California, would have to wait until next year. asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Inter… via Nikkei Asia

Excellent detail from Ken Moriyasu on the likely Quad leaders’ meeting ahead of this month’s UNGA - the last for Biden & Kishida. As I told a US-India Strategic Partnership Forum webinar this week with Ken, whenever the four leaders - or foreign & defence ministers - are together, the Quad should meet.

I had the privilege of attending #TSD2024, put on by the awesome ASPI team, ably led by Justin Bassi. Here are my reflections on why fora like #TSD2024 matter, especially these days. Stay tuned for my longread diary piece on #tsd2024! atechnolegalupdate.medium.com/some-reflectio…

This is the key line from the FT op-ed by Bill Burns and Richard Moore. Our intelligence and security services have been explicit and consistent in raising the alarm. And yet again and again, the mission to recalibrate government to reflect this reality is an uphill battle.

Still recovering from ASPI's successful #TheSydneyDialogue 2024. A brilliant event that brought together politicians, policymakers, industry & civil society leaders to discuss & debate the opportunities & risks presented by technology and impact on our societies & security.

Well done Justin Bassi and your exceptional team. #Thesydneydialogue put voices from the Asia and Pacific regions at the heart of the discussion of how technology is shaping our politics, security and prosperity. The future is being made today by how we design and use technology

This morning we welcomed Norway’s Defence Minister Bjørn Arild Gram for an engaging roundtable discussion exploring the 🇳🇴-🇦🇺 relationship. ASPI analysts shared insights on hybrid threats in 🌏 & 🇦🇺's Defence Strategic Review, & findings from the ASPI Cyber, Tech & Security Critical Tech Tracker.

ICYMI: "I can see AI models doing a lot more of that than we are right now comfortable envisioning, but I think that may only become clear with aggressive experimentation, which is what we need to be doing". Thoroughly enjoyed speaking to Shashank Joshi on AI, intel & tech. Listen 🎧⤵️

Today’s 20th anniversary of the bombing of the 🇦🇺 embassy in Jakarta allows us to reflect on the devastating impact of terrorism, on the subsequent cooperation between 🇦🇺 & 🇮🇩 and on how long-term national resilience requires regular, informed messaging about the threats we face.