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 ...

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 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 deadlock over New Caledonia’s future is deepening, with continued risk of further violence. French President Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to resolve a long-running impasse over the territory’s ...

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 ...

When I first lived in China nearly a decade ago, I was stunned by the dizzying scale and sophistication of its digital infrastructure. So when a driverless taxi ferried me through Shanghai last ...

For nearly three decades, the digital economy has operated on a US-designed model of cross-border data flows, platform immunity and innovation at scale. This model is under increasing strain. In a ...

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 ...