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 ...

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 ...

Afghanistan is giving away its mineral wealth. Through a pattern of deals that export value at the point of extraction, the country is surrendering control over what could – and should – be its ...

Over the past few years, Starlink’s low-Earth orbit satellite internet service has entered the Pacific Islands region, bringing connectivity to communities long defined by their isolation. Regulatory ...

Almost a year since South Korean President Lee Jae-myung assumed office, South Korea has not found a formula to bring North Korea back to the negotiating table. Lee has been disappointed in his ...

From a Biden administration insider, an account of how global crises were managed and a warning of what is to come. The old international order is over, and a competition is underway to determine what ...

After nearly a decade of relative pause, China has resumed large-scale island-building in the South China Sea. Satellite images of Antelope Reef show a once-submerged feature rapidly transformed into ...

In 2023, the Australian government adopted a “strategy of denial” to guide defence planning, defined as an “defensive approach designed to stop an adversary from succeeding in its goal to coerce ...

A year on from the shock of US President Donald Trump’s April 2025 announcement of unilateral tariff increases, US trading partners are openly shrugging off the administration’s insults and demands.

The sea lanes that traverse the Indian Ocean carry the fuel, food and goods that underpin Australia’s economic security. Future disruptions anywhere along these routes, whether in the Strait of Hormuz ...

Beijing has abandoned its long-standing posture as a reluctant mediator of the Korean Peninsula’s nuclear crisis. In its place, it is now actively leveraging Pyongyang’s nuclear status as a durable ...