There are moments in Australian policy when a small line in a budget paper carries a larger meaning. The $11.4 million over four years for the Australia–Indonesia Institute is one of those moments in ...

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 ...

Afghanistan is giving away its mineral wealth. Through a pattern of deals that export value at the point of extraction, the country is surrendering control over what could – and should – be its ...

Over the past few years, Starlink’s low-Earth orbit satellite internet service has entered the Pacific Islands region, bringing connectivity to communities long defined by their isolation. Regulatory ...

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.

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 ...

From a Biden administration insider, an account of how global crises were managed and a warning of what is to come. The old international order is over, and a competition is underway to determine what ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...