The United States has lost influence to China in Southeast Asia over the past five years in all four categories measured by the Asia Power Index: economic relationships, defence networks, diplomatic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 sovereign citizen movement has grown beyond a nuisance and into an escalating national security challenge for many countries around the world.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has travelled relentlessly since his inauguration in October 2024. Yet questions remain about the direction of Indonesian foreign policy under his leadership. How ...