Cate Sumner is Director of Law and Development Partners and a Senior Adviser with the ASEAN Australia Counter Trafficking program (ASEAN-ACT) and the Australia Indonesia Partnership for Justice 2 ...

Alarmed by the possibility of funding cuts, the world’s big multilateral banks are scrambling to accommodate US demands. For several years, the Asian Development Bank has highlighted its role as “the ...

As chair for 2025, Malaysia is steering the Association of Southeast Asian Nations under the theme “Inclusivity and Sustainability.” This marks Malaysia’s fifth term at the helm since ASEAN’s founding ...

China currently controls Aksai Chin (acquired during the Sino-Indian War of 1962) and Shaksgam (ceded by Pakistan in 1963 through a boundary agreement). Unlike India and Pakistan, China does not claim ...

In 2017, Trump did not expect to win and was not ready to govern when he beat Hillary Clinton in the election. As a newly elected leader with no experience in government, personal relationships and ...

This month, world leaders met to attend the 2025 UN Ocean Conference, held in France. In his speech, Tuvalu’s Prime Minister Feleti Teo called for“the development of an international treaty on sea ...

The dominant strategic narrative presents the Indo-Pacific in binaries: democracies versus autocracies, the US-led order versus China’s challenge, AUKUS versus the PLA Navy. But this framing is not ...

Albanese being unable to say China is a security threat makes for a poor foundation for alliance cooperation focused on deterring China, and for AUKUS. The whole point of US, UK and Australian ...

Canada’s recently elected Prime Minister Mark Carney had invited the king to deliver the throne speech – the first time a reigning monarch has done so since 1977 – as a statement of Canadian ...

An unusual kind of tension is brewing in Northeast Asia. In a first, China deployed its Liaoning and Shandong aircraft carriers to the Pacific, generating fresh friction with Japan. The Chinese ...

But the relative stability of the camps may now be drawing to an end. The last couple of years has seen an uptick in Rohingya refugee flows out of Bangladesh, and the number is expected to increase ...

Stephen Moran is an independent trade analyst. He was Senior Trade Analyst in the Office of National Assessments from 2010­ to 2021. Before that, he held various trade policy roles in the Department ...