China’s opposition to Japan and the Philippines’ maritime boundary delimitation talks (Opens in new window) shows how China is using its “sovereignty narrative” to turn a normal bilateral maritime ...

The fifth iteration of our interactive map of the world’s most significant diplomatic networks includes 66 countries or territories in Asia, the G20 and the OECD, visualising how they invest in ...

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After nearly three years of fighting, Sudan’s war is no longer an internal conflict. Fuelled by several intertwined factors – including regional rivalries, Gulf ambitions as well as great-power ...

The Indo-Pacific Development Centre (IPDC) is a policy research centre at the Lowy Institute dedicated to generating fresh policy insights and ideas on the most pressing economic development issues in ...

Riley Duke is a Research Fellow at the Lowy Institute and lead author of the Institute's Pacific Aid Map. Roland Rajah Roland ...

Graham Fletcher is a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute and a former Australian Ambassador to China. Graham is a former public servant who worked in Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and ...

Having closed the country even more tightly during the Covid pandemic, last month North Korea put out the welcome sign for a small group of foreign tourists from Australia, the United Kingdom, France, ...

In view of this exposure, the region’s renewable targets are, on paper, world-leading. Cook Islands, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Samoa, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu have all pledged 100% renewable electricity by ...

The attack on evacuation efforts at the Kabul airport by the Islamic State- Khorasan Province (ISK, ISKP, or ISIS-K) triggered much speculation about the Afghan Taliban’s ability to constrain ...

A growing share of regional support is shifting from grants to loans, led by Australia’s expanding infrastructure pipeline and the major multilateral banks. China, once the region’s largest lender, ...