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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For North Korea, the stars of history are aligning with those of geopolitics. North Korea has a vast arms industry whose products are almost entirely modelled on Soviet ones that the Russian army ...

As chair for 2025, Malaysia is steering the Association of Southeast Asian Nations under the theme “Inclusivity and Sustainability.” This marks Malaysia’s fifth term at the helm since ASEAN’s founding ...

Her academic achievements include receiving prestigious scholarships such as the MOFA Taiwan fellowship and MOE doctoral scholarship from the ROC government. She obtained a grant from the Taiwan ...

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 ...

Rennie Lee is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Science Research and ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course at the University of Queensland.

Stephen Moran is an independent trade analyst. He was Senior Trade Analyst in the Office of National Assessments from 2010­ to 2021. Before that, he held various trade policy roles in the Department ...

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 ...

Senior US official statements more recently frame it as Xi seizing on 2027, the 100th anniversary of the PLA’s founding, to complete the material preparation required to make major combat operations ...

Indonesia’s desire to become an OECD member is not unexpected given the country has been involved with the organisation as one of its key partners since 2007. Jakarta actively engages in OECD ...