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 ...

Rather than setting off a cascade of countries withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, the US president may have achieved the opposite. It is astounding what Donald Trump gets away with by using a ball ...

When Chinese technology start-up DeepSeek shocked financial markets in January, having reportedly developed an AI system for just $6 million comparable to OpenAI offerings costing in the billions, ...

For all the talk of alignment, Australia has no influence with North Korea, and South Korea has different interests with China. Despite these efforts, Australia has little real influence over North ...

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Australia’s election campaign formally kicked off today, with a vote to be held on 3 May. Labor, under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, presently holds a narrow majority in parliament, with Opposition ...

Since his election, foreign policy coverage has been dominated by US President Donald Trump. But there is a lot more going on in the world than Trump 2.0. Many important global developments are not ...

As one of the last remnants of British colonial control in the Indian Ocean, and host to a major US military base, the Chagos Archipelago has long been entangled in a fraught geopolitical contest. So ...

Donald Trump may have well and truly trashed most of the conventional interpretations of American exceptionalism in little more than two months in office. However, it says a lot about the enduring ...

The big question for Australia’s pre-election aid budget released this week was how it would respond to a global development landscape in turmoil. Deep aid cuts by the United States and, to a lesser ...

At last week’s Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi, the Philippines’ Armed Forces Chief didn’t mince words, calling on India and South Korea to join an Indo-Pacific “Squad” to push back against China’s ...

For years, Europe’s mainstream political elites have cast Donald Trump as the top problem from the United States. This week, Vice President JD Vance is close to overtaking his boss. Vance and his wife ...