Discreet, high-stakes negotiations between Washington and the Taliban burst into public view last week when US President Donald Trump declared that America was “trying” to regain control of Bagram ...

Malaysia’s approach in navigating great power rivalry since the Cold War has largely been based on the principles of non-alignment, neutralism, and equidistance. However, two contrasting snapshots of ...

It was warm and humid as I stepped out of my vehicle to greet the commander of the Australian Army’s elite 3rd Brigade at the High Range training area near Townsville, Queensland, last week. The ...

The world feels like it’s spinning out of control. Wars are breaking out, neighbours are turning on each other, people are starving, epidemics are spreading, debt is piling up, and the climate is ...

The twin messages from the spectacle that unfolded in Tiananmen Square on 3 September could not be missed. China’s military parade, watched over by Xi Jinping as he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with ...

Nepal has just experienced historic protests that resulted in the overthrow of the government. Sri Lanka in 2022 and Bangladesh in 2024 also experienced protests that ousted their leaders. That’s ...

The Hon Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, Prime Minister of Samoa, delivered this address at the Lowy Institute in Sydney on Thursday, 30 August 2018. 30 August 2018 Check against delivery. Chairman Sir ...

The latest reports from the Lower Mekong Basin are cause for growing concern that another period of drought will succeed that of 2019, affecting Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. Expected rainfall ...

The tale has become accepted diplomatic folklore. In the telling, it was Australia, back in 2008 in the early days of the Rudd government, that decided to scuttle the then-nascent Quadrilateral ...

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 ...

Australia should articulate and pursue a disciplined Taiwan strategy that uses the flexibility of its one-China policy to increase engagement with Taipei in service of Australian economic and security ...

Chinese exercises in the South China Sea last month, and the strong US response, show these disputed waters will not soon be calm. While the focus has largely been on military manoeuvres, competition ...