Why India’s festive season could hold the key to soft power gains
Earlier this month was Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights that commemorates the triumph of good over evil. I was in Melbourne at the time, and went to a Diwali celebration organised by a local council. It was, by Indian standards at least, a fairly sedate affair: a DJ, a cluster of food trucks ...
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Why China remains unlikely to invade Taiwan | Lowy Institute
Apr 17, 2024 · Plenty of Americans — including senior military officers, academics, and politicians — think Chinese leader Xi Jinping sees war as the best option. Those making this argument typically say Xi is tired of waiting for unification to happen peacefully, sees a military window of opportunity, or has set a deadline for finishing the job. Some think China’s recent economic problems create an ...
Understanding China’s Belt and Road Initiative - Lowy Institute
Mar 22, 2017 · At the end of 2013 Chinese President Xi Jinping announced one of China’s most ambitious foreign policy and economic initiatives. He called for the building of a Silk Road Economic Belt and a 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, collectively referred to as One Belt, One Road (OBOR) but which has also come to be known as the Belt and Road Initiative.
Geopolitics in the Pacific Islands: Playing for advantage
Jan 31, 2024 · Pacific Islands Countries are leveraging geopolitical rivalries to maximise their development options. But unmanaged competition for influence among key development partners can compromise good governance and privilege geopolitical posturing over local priorities.
Global poverty is still a massive problem - Lowy Institute
Feb 14, 2024 · Using $6.85 a day as a reasonable benchmark for thinking about global poverty paints a much bleaker picture (see the second chart). On this measure, some 3.6 billion people still lived in poverty in 2019, roughly the same as three decades ago.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: Why and why now? - Lowy Institute
Jun 22, 2023 · Meanwhile, he saw Washington as focused on its growing rivalry with China, while America’s international standing had been diminished by the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Biden administration also seemed preoccupied and weakened at home by partisan politics.
Kamala Harris and China: Competition and antagonism, continued
Oct 1, 2024 · This article also appears in a collection of essays, Harris v Trump, written by Lowy Institute experts on the implications for Australia of the US presidential election. During the 2020 US election campaign, Beijing considered whether it should surreptitiously attempt to interfere in the contest by putting a thumb on the scale on behalf of either of the two candidates, Donald Trump or Joe Biden.
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Power in Asia: Pivots, paper tigers and regional poles
Oct 1, 2024 · As great power competition intensifies in the Indo-Pacific, so too has contestation over power-transition narratives. On the one hand, there are those that see US power in steep decline.
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