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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The media typically only has enough space to focus on one big story at a time. Trump’s tariffs are dominating now. Last week it was “Signal-gate”, after a journalist was added to a White House-led ...

Both India and China see this line differently. For New Delhi, the LAC is 3,488 kilometres long, while for Beijing, it constitutes only 2,000 kilometres. In recent times, frequent clashes and military ...

The second issue concerns the quality of the outcome. There are doubts whether China will be willing to sign a legally binding agreement, given that it has already dismissed the outcome of the ...

So it was a great relief on Wednesday to see Australia launch its International Gender Equality Strategy. The strategy itself is a welcome signal of Australia’s intention to ensure that gender ...

Understanding the growing overlap between the Step-up and the Quad is important. China’s rising belligerence has led to stronger collaboration among Quad nations in an attempt to limit Beijing’s ...

The Corridor was first proposed in the late 2000s by Türkiye as part of broader efforts to improve Ankara’s strategic position in the region. In 2020, following the Trans-Kazakhstan railway’s 2014 ...

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 ...