The twin messages from the spectacle that unfolded in Tiananmen Square on 3 September could not be missed. China’s military parade, watched over by Xi Jinping as he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with ...

Nepal has just experienced historic protests that resulted in the overthrow of the government. Sri Lanka in 2022 and Bangladesh in 2024 also experienced protests that ousted their leaders. That’s ...

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi is expected in Papua New Guinea this weekend to sign an agreement clearing the way for PNG’s agricultural exports to enter the Chinese market. This step has already ...

With the release of Australia’s landmark report on the effects of climate change this week, it is now more important than ever to build strategic and innovative climate policy. The National Climate ...

Max Uechtritz was a foreign correspondent then Director of News and Current Affairs at the ABC, Director of News of the Nine Network and Director of Programmes ...

A big plan to connect 70% of the country to power by 2030 grabbed headlines. Delivering is the true challenge. Getting the leaders of five Asia-Pacific nations together for the photograph amidst the ...

The tale has become accepted diplomatic folklore. In the telling, it was Australia, back in 2008 in the early days of the Rudd government, that decided to scuttle the then-nascent Quadrilateral ...

For several years, the US security establishment appeared fixated on the year 2027 as the deadline set by Xi Jinping to compel Taiwan with military force. First raised by then-INDOPACOM commander ...

The Hon Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, Prime Minister of Samoa, delivered this address at the Lowy Institute in Sydney on Thursday, 30 August 2018. 30 August 2018 Check against delivery. Chairman Sir ...

The United States has lost influence to China in Southeast Asia over the past five years in all four categories measured by the Asia Power Index: economic relationships, defence networks, diplomatic ...

Vietnam recently banned the film Uncharted from domestic distribution due to a scene depicting an “illegal image” of China’s infamous “nine-dash line”. This is not the first time popular culture has ...

The Mar-a-Lago Accord is an idea floated by Stephen Miran, recently appointed Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers. Such a deal, Miran claims, would address the US current account and ...