Kim’s motive for finally admitting this open secret has to do with domestic implications for North Korea itself from the fighting in Ukraine. North Korea’s military presence over the years in Egypt, ...

Seoul and Canberra have long shared close diplomatic relations, with Australia being the second country to send forces to support South Korea during the Korean War. Some experts even go as far as ...

Roland Rajah is Director of the Indo-Pacific Development Centre, a dedicated policy research centre within the Lowy Institute. The Centre is committed to producing fresh policy insights and ideas on ...

Like the 1985 Plaza Accord, part of the proposed solution is to force the rest of the world to appreciate their currencies to improve US export competitiveness. You can already see the effort here to ...

A weekend headline from the South China Morning Post declaring “ China unveils a powerful deep-sea cable-cutter that could reset the world order ” caught plenty of attention and amplified anxieties ...

China is widely assumed to be the biggest beneficiary, although the full extent of the impact remains unquantified. A back-of-the-envelope calculation, however, offers some insight into the upheaval ...

However, the idea that young men are simply struggling to adapt to modern times is outdated. They grew up in households where women worked and in societies where gender roles were already shifting.

Australian aid projects jointly funded with the United States will be most directly affected, including strategic infrastructure projects in the Pacific such as undersea cables aimed at combatting ...

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 ...

The biggest sector at risk is health, where US assistance – roughly $8 million annually – primarily funds HIV/AIDS programs and basic health services in Papua New Guinea and other Melanesian countries ...

These events indicate that the year ahead will be at least as uncertain, violent and chaotic as 2024. However, besides the fighting and posturing of different actors across the globe, key trends will ...

Germany is hurtling towards an unexpected election. In December, German President Steinmeier dissolved the current government to enable the 23 February poll. Significant losses by major parties in ...