Around 3:30 in the afternoon, just 25 kilometres from Lahore, a restless crowd gathers at the Wagah–Attari border, where two rival nations – India and Pakistan – meet. Pakistanis pass through layers ...

There is a certain attractiveness to arguments that President Donald Trump’s blowing up of transatlantic relations will catalyse a rapprochement between Europe and China. At a time when Europe is ...

The Gate of Grief may be in for more suffering. Just when the Egyptian government was hoping traffic through the Suez Canal might return to normal after 15 months of conflict, the waterway is ...

For all his bravado and rhetoric against the International Criminal Court, no other statement from the Philippines’ former president Rodrigo Duterte betrays as much meaning as when he exclaimed in ...

Housing will be a central issue of Australia’s forthcoming election. The cost and scarcity of it is a national emergency. While younger voters may force politicians to think about it more clearly when ...

There is one aspect of Senior General Min Aung Hlaing’s recent visit to Russia that has largely escaped notice. This was Vladimir Putin’s offer to help Myanmar’s military regime improve its access to ...

Singapore’s defence minister last week announced that two new submarines would be acquired from Germany in addition to the four it currently operates. The acquisition of the two additional Type-218 ...

When I joined the defence department in early 2019, a senior military officer cautioned: “You will soon learn that everyone has an opinion about the tank.” Indeed, that realisation dawned quickly. In ...

Always known as a fiercely non-aligned leader, Malaysia’s Prime Minister has changed his tune on the Belt and Road.

It is estimated that there are 3,800 shipwrecks scattered across the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Most date from the Second World War. However, shipwrecks are not an issue consigned to the past. In the ...

The 25% tariff on Australian exports of steel and aluminium to the United States commenced as of 3pm this afternoon. Australia is not alone in facing this tariff hike, and while under Trump’s first ...

Don McLain Gill is a geopolitical analyst and lecturer at the Department of International Studies, De La Salle University in Manila.