Peter Hartcher is the political editor and international editor of The Sydney Morning Herald. He is a Gold Walkley award winner, a former foreign correspondent in Tokyo and Washington, and a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. His latest book is The Sweet Spot: How Australia Made its Own Luck and Could Now Throw it All Away. His 2005 book, Bubble Man: Alan Greenspan and the Missing Seven Trillion Dollars, foresaw the collapse of the US housing market and the economic slump that followed.
The US under a President Trump would withdraw Australia's security guarantee and become a "rogue superpower", according to a scholarly analysis commissioned by Australia's Lowy Institute.
South Korea will arm itself with nuclear weapons if its rogue neighbour, North Korea, continues to develop the bomb.
If the killers were able to murder 129 people in Paris and injure 352, and to achieve nothing beyond that, they wouldn't be shooting people and blowing themselves up.
The number of French recruits to Islamic State is rising unstoppably, in spite of waves of new measures to halt it, according to French officials.
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