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 ...

The New York Times journalist Peter Baker offered a compelling weekend reflection that “Epic Fury” – the operational codename for the US war against Iran – captures something far larger: the mood of ...

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 ...

Sir Frank Lowy AC founded the Lowy Institute in 2003 and has served as its Chairman since then. He co-founded global shopping centre company Westfield in 1960 and served as its Executive Chairman for ...

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 ...

It’s tempting to assume that Donald Trump is the world’s biggest foreign policy problem. But in Australia’s case, that would be as incomplete as it is dangerous. After a week of consultations with ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is no shortage of examples of how the United States, under President Donald Trump, flaunts long-established rules of international law. While there are limited levers available to bring the ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a remarkable address to the Munich Security Conference on 14 February, a speech that offered a vision of renewed Western civilisational expansion. “For five ...

He has served as Chairman, World Board of Trustees Keren Hayesod-UIA (recipient of Ze’ev Jabotinsky award), a director of Scentre Group, Chairman of Football Federation Australia, President of the ...