What should be done? Canberra should strengthen trade and political engagement with Taiwan through a strategy of consistent policy and messaging to counteract China’s efforts to isolate Taiwan, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shijie Wang is a Master of Public Policy candidate at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, specialising in geopolitical risk analysis, US-China relations, and national security. He ...

Although the North Korea issue remains South Korea’s top foreign policy challenge, the Yoon government aims to broaden the scope of its foreign policy focus. “For the next two years, we will play a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Justin Brown is a former Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade official. He was Deputy Secretary in the Department with oversight of the trade and economic agenda. He served as Australia's chief ...

Even before the establishment of the Squad it was apparent that the Quad was shifting away from its original mandate of maritime security. The Quad or the “Quadrilateral Security Dialogue” emerged in ...