The Interpreter features daily commentary and analysis on international issues. The site is edited by Daniel Flitton and research editor Clare Caldwell, along with founding editor Sam Roggeveen.. In ...

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 ...

Canberra should strengthen trade and political engagement with Taiwan through a strategy of consistent policy and messaging to counteract China’s efforts to isolate Taiwan, maximise the economic ...

For several years, the US security establishment appeared fixated on the year 2027 as the deadline set by Xi Jinping to compel Taiwan with military force. First raised by then-INDOPACOM commander ...

Thailand’s National Anti-Corruption Commission announced recently it will indict 44 former MPs of the now-dissolved progressive Move Forward Party for seeking to amend Section 112 of Thailand’s ...

The Mar-a-Lago Accord is an idea floated by Stephen Miran, recently appointed Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers. Such a deal, Miran claims, would address the US current account and ...

The ruling coalition in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, Gabugan Parti Sarawak (GPS), has been assiduously working since 2018 towards the political goal of establishing the most autonomous state inside ...

Indonesia has officially become a new BRICS partner, joining countries such as Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Türkiye, Nigeria, Cuba and Kazakhstan. Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Sugiono announced this ...

The new year has begun with a rush of events. In Europe, governments are posturing for the arrival of the second Donald Trump administration. On his first day in office, Trump signed around 100 ...

Since Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV for short) joined the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in quick succession in the late 1990s, the region’s peak organisation has held ...

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 ...