On 1 March, New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rt Hon Winston Peters, delivered an address at the Lowy Institute. New Zealand’s coalition government was formed with ...

Thailand’s National Anti-Corruption Commission announced recently it will indict 44 former MPs of the now-dissolved progressive Move Forward Party for seeking to amend Section 112 of Thailand’s ...

Second, it isn’t clear how the ADF would properly equip a large pool of trained reservists – typically one of the benefits of national service. For example, 30,000 conscripts might be trained annually ...

For North Korea, the stars of history are aligning with those of geopolitics. North Korea has a vast arms industry whose products are almost entirely modelled on Soviet ones that the Russian army ...

Her academic achievements include receiving prestigious scholarships such as the MOFA Taiwan fellowship and MOE doctoral scholarship from the ROC government. She obtained a grant from the Taiwan ...

The International Energy Agency has released its annual “ World Energy Outlook 2023 ”, a report that tracks the global transition to net zero emissions. The report contains the latest trends from ...

Roland Rajah is Director of the Indo-Pacific Development Centre, a dedicated policy research centre within the Lowy Institute. The Centre is committed to producing fresh policy insights and ideas on ...

Céline Pajon is Head of Japan Research at the Center for Asian and Indo-Pacific Studies of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), Paris. She also coordinates the research program on ...

Bill Bishop an entrepreneur and former media executive with more than a decade’s experience living in and working in the PRC. He writes the Sinocism Newsletter, a daily publication about China, that ...

WHO’s budget was already spread thin, and its mandate keeps growing, with budget estimates for 2026-27 already 9% higher than the current biennium. But the loss of US funding – particularly its ...

Senior US official statements more recently frame it as Xi seizing on 2027, the 100th anniversary of the PLA’s founding, to complete the material preparation required to make major combat operations ...

Both India and China see this line differently. For New Delhi, the LAC is 3,488 kilometres long, while for Beijing, it constitutes only 2,000 kilometres. In recent times, frequent clashes and military ...