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 ...

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 ...

We’re told that President Donald Trump’s Middle East policy is all about China, that a master strategist is at work to isolate Beijing from the world by attacking one of its closest partners and a ...

Donald Trump’s behaviour during this presidential term reveals a surprisingly deep strategic logic. The core goal remains to restore absolute American superiority over China and Russia. But Trump ...

ASEAN centrality is a concept in crisis. The bloc now faces a huge test as Thailand and Cambodia clash along the disputed border in the Emerald Triangle. Yet there is little sign that the Association ...

China is currently undertaking the largest military expansion in its modern history. According to a recent US Intelligence Community assessment, Beijing’s objective is to become the “preeminent power ...

ASEAN’s traditional non-interference doctrine has posed an acute challenge for the regional body in responding to the 2021 coup in Myanmar. A Five-Point Consensus proposal has seen little progress, ...

The latest NATO summit proved a surprising success following a surreal bromance between top leaders. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, a veteran politician and former Dutch prime minister, pulled out ...

The strategic relevance of maritime choke points has remained a constant throughout military history. Their control has often defined the outcomes of major conflicts, shaped geopolitical balances, and ...

The fate of the subsea environment and the seabed are on the brink of a fundamental shift. Driven by the Trump administration’s recent sweeping changes to US national security and foreign and domestic ...

Over the past year, China’s President Xi Jinping has undertaken two waves of purges of high-ranking military leaders from the People’s Liberation Army. The first wave targeted the PLA Rocket Force, ...