Indonesia’s latest announcement of expanded cooperation with China in Papua deserves attention not because it signals geopolitical tension, but because it may finally bring long-overdue economic focus ...

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 ...

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 ...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a frank and impassioned speech at this year's World Economic Forum at Davos. He argued that in an era of great power competition, middle powers can no ...

The long-awaited India–European Union Free Trade Agreement branded as the “mother of all deals” is being celebrated as a triumph of market access. After nearly two decades of stalled negotiations, it ...

In a year defined by global economic turbulence, geopolitical tensions, and trade disruptions, India in 2025 has charted a course of remarkable resilience through a series of transformative reforms.

In 2025, Indonesia and China marked the 75th anniversary of their diplomatic ties, highlighting how the relationship has matured into one of the Indo-Pacific’s most consequential. The commemoration ...

Going into the 2022 election, improving relations with Southeast Asia was at the top of the foreign policy to-do list for the Australian Labor Party, led by now prime minister Anthony Albanese. While ...

The US$8.5 billion critical minerals deal signed between Australia and the United States this week has placed the spotlight on how much value the Trump Administration places on securing access to ...

The global resurgence of religion among young people (especially young men) stands as one of the great puzzles of our era, defying two long-held sociological iron laws: faith is for the old, and for ...