For the best part of a decade, British politics was convulsed by madness. Prime minister after prime minister was consumed by the impossibility of taming the visceral political energies released by ...

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 ...

When Donald Trump meets Xi Jinping in Beijing this week, the American president has said he expects the Chinese leader to greet him with “a big, fat hug.” While Southeast Asians would like to see a ...

In the weeks after the US-Israeli attack on Iran and now amid a fragile ceasefire, the silence from the BRICS grouping – where Iran has been a member since 2024 – has been revealing. Despite Iran’s ...

Almost a year since South Korean President Lee Jae-myung assumed office, South Korea has not found a formula to bring North Korea back to the negotiating table. Lee has been disappointed in his ...

There’s been some discussion lately about allowing US military aircraft broad overflight access across Indonesian airspace. At first glance, this sounds like a technical or operational issue. But ...

In 2023, the Australian government adopted a “strategy of denial” to guide defence planning, defined as an “defensive approach designed to stop an adversary from succeeding in its goal to coerce ...

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 ...

After nearly a decade of relative pause, China has resumed large-scale island-building in the South China Sea. Satellite images of Antelope Reef show a once-submerged feature rapidly transformed into ...

A year on from the shock of US President Donald Trump’s April 2025 announcement of unilateral tariff increases, US trading partners are openly shrugging off the administration’s insults and demands.