On 15 May, Hitoshi Kikawada, Japan’s minister in charge of gender equality, visited Shanghai to attend the APEC ministerial meeting on Women and the Economy. It is the first visit to China by a ...

Last month, a billiard table upended an Indonesian official’s afternoon. The table, budgeted at Rp400 million (A$31,000) from public funds, appeared on a dashboard called Nemesis Assai, a tool built ...

An Indian warship sailed from Mumbai last month as part of an operation dubbed Indian Ocean Ship (IOS) Sagar. On board, in addition to the Indian crew, were 38 personnel from 16 countries, for a ...

The January 2026 raid that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro instilled confidence in US President Donald Trump in the use of lethal force to deliver outsized results. Plenty of people had ...

Australia’s recently released National Defence Strategy highlighted the need for enhanced national resilience. However, it contained no discussion about how Australia might mobilise as a nation for ...

The Iran war is hitting the Indo-Pacific’s most fragile economies hard. The shock is travelling through multiple channels at once: energy, food, financial stress, and political instability. A ...

International trade has faced multiple shocks in recent years, making the need to reform the architecture of global trade more urgent than ever. Aligning new trade rules with global net-zero ambitions ...

As the Beijing Auto Show wraps up for another year against the backdrop of a global fossil fuel supply crisis, it’s difficult to come to any conclusion other than your next passenger motor vehicle ...

Beijing has cast itself as a mediator between Pakistan and the Taliban, neighbours locked in a border conflict that was bound to erupt. China has leant on its ties to both sides to present itself as ...

In July last year, the Trump administration gave itself the power to enact 40% tariffs on the “transshipment” of goods. These tariffs caused a frisson of anxiety throughout the Association of ...

Foreign policy pundit and CNN host Fareed Zakaria detects a trend, arguing in his latest editorial that Europe is moving towards “strategic autonomy” from the United States. Zakaria is not alone.