“One Health” approaches, which combine animal, human, and environmental health, are critical for preventing another devastating pandemic. Though often sidelined, One Health approaches should be included in a more holistic definition of security.

When Australian trade with China is disrupted, commentary quickly gravitates towards the frame of economic coercion. With such deeply intertwined trade relations, coercion is, in reality, only one possible cause.

Taiwan has successfully managed the COVID-19 pandemic. It has skilfully used this success and its “Taiwan can help” campaign of mask donations to enhance its international standing and reduce its diplomatic isolation.

Data centres in Hong Kong should be alert for the legislation of the new Hong Kong security law. The law is likely to directly affect data centres involved in national security activities, and may indirectly shape the data industry’s self-regulation to voluntarily comply with mainland Chinese law.

Harinder Sidhu, former High Commissioner to India, on the Australia-India relationship.

In the past few weeks in Nepal, a border dispute with India regarding a small strip of land in Lipu Lek has displaced COVID-19 as an overriding national concern. But the Lipu Lek fiasco is just the latest episode in a series of disputes over a historically contested territory.

Criminal organisations have always sought to benefit from new opportunities, even those arising from catastrophe. New understandings of international relations and economics must take these powerful groups into account.

As the infrastructure of globalisation falters, one thing is clear: newly empowered nation-states are taking the stage. Legacies of debt and dependence will make a simple return to the past impossible, but nor is there a clear path forward. Welcome to the age of uncertainty.

Being stranded with work due to coronavirus lockdowns requires adaption but not every change is new.  Through the crisis, the ICRC’s forensic team continues to focus on protection, respect, and dignity for the deceased and their families.

Regime leaders in Iran are adept at using media and popular culture to foster support.  Narges Bajoghli helps readers understand the contemporary position of the Islamic Republic by examining the four decades since the Islamic revolution.