China has not missed the opportunity posed by the United States’ economic self-immolation to present itself as a responsible champion of the international trading system. Mid-April, shortly after the ...

Dr Abdul Rahman Yaacob is a Research Fellow in the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute. His research interests include Southeast Asia’s defence and security issues and the region’s relations ...

Papua New Guinea wants to better leverage foreign partnerships for its international education strategy. At the same time this will allow national and local authorities to assert greater agency in ...

For some time now, Ukraine has been undertaking a long-range strike campaign against targets inside Russia. It has done this to degrade Russia’s war-making capacity by attacking factories and oil ...

Will the price fall? Japan has seen unprecedented increases in the cost of rice in recent months, affecting both consumers and the food industry. The surge is prompting the country to re-evaluate rice ...

How far should geopolitical calculation drive trade agreements? It’s the question raised in whom to support and whom to stall for admission to the 12 nation, adjective laden Comprehensive and ...

Developing countries are grappling with a tidal wave of debt repayments and interest costs to China, as bills come due from its Belt and Road lending surge in the 2010s, new Lowy Institute analysis ...

There is near universal agreement that Australia should spend more money on defence. The big political parties want to spend more. The defence commentariat overwhelmingly agrees. And earlier this week ...

The 90-day pause in the US-China trade war brought relief to global markets. But while the trade truce is good news, rare earth elements have steadily emerged as a new flashpoint. Beijing’s dominance ...

While the world watched Donald Trump’s high-profile visit to the Middle East alongside Silicon Valley’s biggest names, only a few would have anticipated that one of the most consequential tech deals ...