On 1 March, New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rt Hon Winston Peters, delivered an address at the Lowy Institute. New Zealand’s coalition government was formed with ...

There has been little to no study or monitoring on the support Pacific countries provide to each other. This year’s Lowy Institute Pacific Aid Map changes that, for the first time mapping ...

The Moscow-Pyongyang partnership has crossed into uncharted territory. The major shift in the dynamics of North Korea-Russia relations was epitomised by Kim Jong-un’s decision to bolster Vladimir ...

Senior US official statements more recently frame it as Xi seizing on 2027, the 100th anniversary of the PLA’s founding, to complete the material preparation required to make major combat operations ...

How times change. Only three years ago, President-elect Donald Trump declared cryptocurrencies to be a “ scam ” and a threat to the primacy of the dollar in the international economy. We think he was ...

Many of the stakeholders we spoke to share these concerns. But they are also worried about what AUKUS will mean for Australia’s shipbuilding future. Since the announcement in March 2023 setting out ...

The United States, Russia, and China all have stakes in the region. Pakistan is wary that Taliban control over energy supplies may enable political leverage. And India, which has no effective ...

The decades-old dispute between Russia and Japan over the status of the Kuril Islands is far from over. Tokyo, which refers to the islands as the Northern Territories, still insists on a peace treaty ...

There is a building spree going on in our neighbourhood as Pacific Island countries leverage geopolitical rivalries to fill a huge gap. A rough estimate is that the region needs about $3 billion a ...

Beijing has already used its near-monopolistic global supply chain control of critical minerals to gain a strategic advantage over the United States and Japan. It has increased restrictions on its ...