Dr Courtney J. Fung is a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute, an associate professor in the Department of Security Studies & Criminology at Macquarie University, and an associate at the Fairbank ...

In the face of geopolitical confrontation, technologies evolving faster than we can regulate them, populist politics and failing cooperation on climate, we must understand that the best way to manage ...

Dr Feng Chongyi is Associate Professor in China Studies, University of Technology, Sydney and adjunct Professor of History, Nankai University, Tianjin.

The return of President Donald Trump to the White House means another trade war between the United States and China looks increasingly likely, with the rest of the world caught in… ...

Over the more than 50 years since the floating of the US dollar, American economists have broadly agreed with US former Treasury Secretary Connolly’s 1971 message to the rest of the world: “It’s our ...

The Trump administration has spent a week directing USAID and other government departments to remove any references to gender equality, women’s empowerment and LGBTQIA+ programs from their websites ...

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Dr Grenville is a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute. He works as a consultant on financial sector issues in East Asia. Between 1982 and 2001 he worked at the Reserve Bank of Australia, for the ...

As Australia’s chief voice on foreign affairs, Penny Wong has sought to project calm in the wake of Donald Trump’s tariffs – both those threatened and applied. “This is consistent with what President ...

Over the past decade, the Oceania region has moved from what many thought was a backwater of global politics towards much greater centrality. A significant driver of Oceania’s greater prominence in ...

It’s the “Canada” of it all that makes it so worrisome for Australians, because Australia and Canada are so alike. Canada is safe, likeable, reasonable, wealthy, friendly, Western, English-speaking.