Spain’s refusal to sign on notwithstanding, NATO has committed to spending five per cent of GDP on defence. That involves some creative accounting by including ancillary areas such as cyber and ...

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 ...

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.

In 2017, Trump did not expect to win and was not ready to govern when he beat Hillary Clinton in the election. As a newly elected leader with no experience in government, personal relationships and ...

In the past fortnight, multi-party parliamentary delegations from India and Pakistan have stopped in London as part of a world tour. Having had the opportunity to interact with both delegations, one ...

On 15 June, Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra made a private phone call to Cambodia’s Senate President Hun Sen, a former prime minister who remains the dominant political figure in the ...

This month, world leaders met to attend the 2025 UN Ocean Conference, held in France. In his speech, Tuvalu’s Prime Minister Feleti Teo called for“the development of an international treaty on sea ...

The findings of our new research, published at the University of Technology Sydney, reveal that these workplace laws are failing to support victims, mostly women, who experience domestic violence. It ...

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 ...

Canada’s recently elected Prime Minister Mark Carney had invited the king to deliver the throne speech – the first time a reigning monarch has done so since 1977 – as a statement of Canadian ...

China currently controls Aksai Chin (acquired during the Sino-Indian War of 1962) and Shaksgam (ceded by Pakistan in 1963 through a boundary agreement). Unlike India and Pakistan, China does not claim ...

Alarmed by the possibility of funding cuts, the world’s big multilateral banks are scrambling to accommodate US demands. For several years, the Asian Development Bank has highlighted its role as “the ...