Indonesia’s latest announcement of expanded cooperation with China in Papua deserves attention not because it signals geopolitical tension, but because it may finally bring long-overdue economic focus ...

When Donald Trump meets Xi Jinping in Beijing this week, the American president has said he expects the Chinese leader to greet him with “a big, fat hug.” While Southeast Asians would like to see a ...

For the best part of a decade, British politics was convulsed by madness. Prime minister after prime minister was consumed by the impossibility of taming the visceral political energies released by ...

International trade has faced multiple shocks in recent years, making the need to reform the architecture of global trade more urgent than ever. Aligning new trade rules with global net-zero ambitions ...

The BRICS grouping is nowhere to be found while the Iran conflict shows few signs of abating. Although Iran joined BRICS in 2024 and rising powers founded BRICS as part of an effort to push back ...

Across the world’s seafloor, particularly in the Pacific, lie vast fields of polymetallic nodules. These potato-sized rocks, resting 4–6 kilometres below the surface, contain minerals essential to the ...

We’re told that President Donald Trump’s Middle East policy is all about China, that a master strategist is at work to isolate Beijing from the world by attacking one of its closest partners and a ...

Donald Trump’s behaviour during this presidential term reveals a surprisingly deep strategic logic. The core goal remains to restore absolute American superiority over China and Russia. But Trump ...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a frank and impassioned speech at this year's World Economic Forum at Davos. He argued that in an era of great power competition, middle powers can no ...

For North Korea's nuclear arsenal, 2025 has been a relatively quiet year. It neither tested a nuclear weapon nor fired an intercontinental ballistic missile. For now, the conventional military balance ...

In 2025, Indonesia and China marked the 75th anniversary of their diplomatic ties, highlighting how the relationship has matured into one of the Indo-Pacific’s most consequential. The commemoration ...

Pakistan has quietly pitched a bold idea to Washington to build a new deep-sea port at Pasni, on the Arabian Sea, just over 100 kilometres from the China-funded port at Gwadar and about half as far ...