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.

Spurred by British Prime Minister’s Rishi Sunak’s unexpected election promise to re-introduce a form of national service in the United Kingdom, a range of voices in Australia have suggested Australia ...

An Interpreter series exploring the motives, scope, limitations and implications of Australia-Europe security cooperation (Defence Department) ...

Dr Sadia Rahman is a lecturer at the Department of International Strategic Studies, Universiti Malaya. Her research interests primarily focus on China Studies, specifically, she seeks to understand ...

The International Energy Agency has released its annual “World Energy Outlook 2023”, a report that tracks the global transition to net zero emissions. The report contains the latest trends from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bill Bishop an entrepreneur and former media executive with more than a decade’s experience living in and working in the PRC. He writes the Sinocism Newsletter, a daily publication about China, that ...

Rennie Lee is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Science Research and ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course at the University of Queensland.

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 ...

The Trump administration has spent a week directing USAID and other government departments to remove any references to gender equality, women’s empowerment and LGBTQIA+ programs from their websites ...