Southeast Asian countries were among those most heavily targeted by Donald Trump’s so-called reciprocal tariffs – now struck down by the US Supreme Court. Paradoxically, however, the region was ...

The conventional account of why Timor-Leste’s membership of ASEAN is good for regional security goes something like this: Timor-Leste is a young, post-conflict, least-developed country. Membership of ...

As Russia’s war in Ukraine enters its fifth year, Moscow is still fighting for incremental gains in the Donbas, while the Russian economy shows signs of strain. GDP is contracting, oil prices remain ...

When Australia bid to host the 2026 annual global climate change negotiations COP31, it envisioned a Pacific partnership that would centre climate dialogue around the concerns of vulnerable island ...

Danish King Frederik’s upcoming trip to Greenland will send dual messages: a morale boost to locals and a show of unity aimed squarely at the White House. When Danish King Frederik touches down in ...

On many metrics, certainly scale and affordability, Chinese companies are well ahead of the rest when it comes to manufacturing electric vehicles (EVs). Yet the United States, long since overtaken by ...

Prabowo Subianto, sworn in as Indonesia’s eighth president in 2024, has wasted no time in promoting his ambitious foreign policy agenda. Just six months in, he sent Foreign Minister Sugiono to Brazil ...

East Africa sits at the crossroads of the Indian Ocean. Its ports, sea lanes, undersea data cables, mineral corridors and youthful population connect Asia, the Middle East and Africa in ways that ...

In his oft-cited address at this year’s Davos confab, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned of nothing less than “a rupture in the world order”, where even the “pleasant fiction” of a rules-based ...

Anthony Albanese arrived in Jakarta this week carrying a document that sounds bigger than it is: a “Treaty of Common Security” between Australia and Indonesia. Today, 6 February, he meets President ...

John Edwards is a Senior Fellow at the Lowy Institute and an Adjunct Professor with the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy at Curtin University. He is also a board member of the industry ...

On 25 January, China’s People’s Liberation Army announced that Central Military Commission Vice-Chair Zhang Youxia and Chief of the Joint Staff Department General Liu Zhenli were under investigation ...