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. New Zealand’s coalition government was formed with ...

Nickel sulfate (SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images) The Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently hosted a closed-door seminar, inviting speakers from the National Economic Council, a ...

North Korea has rarely admitted the presence of its troops in foreign battlefields, let alone in an ongoing conflict. However, in late April, it did just that. North Korean chairman Kim Jong-un ...

There is a school of thought, found mainly in South Asia, that claims the United States and its allies are preparing to launch a “proxy war” in Myanmar. The operation would ostensibly be aimed at ...

Failures in New Delhi’s Kashmir policy should be examined. After the serenity of Baisaran Valley near Pahalgam in Indian-held Kashmir was shattered last week by a brutal attack, the urgent need is not ...

One potentially revealing way of thinking about the respective strengths and weaknesses of the American and Chinese approaches to politics and economics is to consider the performance of their car ...

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 ...

To be sure, China undoubtedly plays a much larger role in some areas. One important study finds that indirect Chinese imports via third countries are higher in strategic sectors. Last year, America ...

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 ...

After months of uncertainty about its future, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week confirmed the near-total gutting of USAID. With some 83 per cent of programs officially cut, the announcement ...

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 ...

Australia and Papua New Guinea have announced the beginning of negotiations for a bilateral defence treaty, despite having signed a landmark Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) just 14 months ago. This ...