With the announcement of Australia’s pathway towards nuclear-powered submarines, and the forthcoming release of the Government’s response to the Defence Strategic Review, this event offered the rare ...

Some years ago, I found myself taking minutes for a meeting between a senior Papua New Guinean government official, an Australian ex-government-official-turned consultant (my boss), and a diplomat ...

Mihai Sora is Director of the Pacific Islands Program at the Lowy Institute. The Program has a policy research focus on contemporary challenges facing the Pacific Islands region, including ...

Geoff Wade is a Visiting fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University.

The return of President Donald Trump to the White House means another trade war between the United States and China looks likely. The latest data show that China continues to deepen its trading ...

With all eyes on US President Trump over the past month, the world’s second superpower quietly slipped from global headlines. Until this week, when China’s DeepSeek unveiled its artificial ...

There is little comfort for Australia in President Donald Trump’s early trade policy moves. His tariff threats against friend and foe have intensified. And an array of separate tariffs and other trade ...

The return of President Donald Trump to the White House means another trade war between the United States and China looks increasingly likely, with the rest of the world caught in the crossfire. But a ...

Dr Benjamin Herscovitch at ANU and the Lowy Institute’s Hervé Lemahieu discuss the growing global support for China’s efforts to bring Taiwan under its control, potentially via the use of force. As ...

The whereabouts and status of Melbourne teacher Oscar Jenkins remain unclear. Reports first surfaced in December that Jenkins, an Australian citizen who had been flighting with the Ukraine ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in his recent Senate confirmation hearing that “the postwar global order is not just obsolete; it is now a weapon being used against us”. Those words appear to ...