To respond to China’s long-standing dominance of the rare earth market and its use of that dominance as a tool of diplomatic pressure when necessary, Japan is accelerating its effort to elevate rare ...
In light of the successful first-ever US-Japan-Philippines trilateral summit and joint maritime patrols in the South China Sea involving the United States, Japan, Australia, and the Philippines in ...
Today’s world, argues Odd Arne Westad in The Coming Storm, is one “where multiple Great Powers” have come to “jostle for supremacy”. It is a world driven by conflicting interests and marked by fragile ...
The Southeast Asia Aid Map — launched by the Lowy Institute in 2023 — is a comprehensive database tracking official development finance (ODF) flows in Southeast Asia. This 2024 Key Findings report ...
The Iran war threatens more than global energy supplies – it also looms as a potential food shock. Emerging South and Southeast Asian economies are particularly exposed. Much of the oil that would ...
Cambodia isn’t typically thought of as a coastal nation. But its shoreline of 435 kilometres alongside the Gulf of Thailand comes with 55,600 km² of exclusive economic zone (EEZ), making maritime ...
While the world’s attention is rightly focused on the war in Iran, another conflict is unfolding along Iran’s eastern border. Since 27 February 2026, Afghanistan and Pakistan have been officially at ...
Chinese military activity in the Pacific has reached new levels in the past year. A PLA Navy task group circumnavigated Australia in February, staging a live-fire exercise in the Tasman Sea between ...
Dr Hilman Palaon is a Research Fellow at the Lowy Institute in the Indo-Pacific Development Centre. His work focuses on digital economy issues in the Indo-Pacific region. Hilman has extensive ...
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) war with the Kuomintang (KMT, or Nationalist Party) started in the 1920s, hit pause during the decade of anti-Japanese war and the Second World War, then culminated ...
Across Myanmar, the battle continues between the military and those opposed to the military coup d’etat of 1 February 2021. Opposition to the coup began with non-violent resistance in the form of the ...
India supported Mauritius sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago. But New Delhi must also be relieved that the United Kingdom, which agreed this month to hand back the disputed Indian Ocean territory ...
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