The border opened to foreign visitors for only a month before being sealed again. North Korean troops in Russia might be the reason. Non-Russian tourists had been granted access only to the Rason ...

Less than two months into Trump’s second coming, Australia’s worst fears for an empowered MAGA presidency are materialising quickly: the undermining of alliances, the imposition of blanket tariffs, ...

After months of uncertainty about its future, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week confirmed the near-total gutting of USAID. With some 83 per cent of programs officially cut, the announcement ...

The ripple effects of two recent geopolitical developments have raised doubts about the feasibility of accelerating Southeast Asia’s energy transition. In February, the United States signalled its ...

Demand for cars powered by fossil fuels has already peaked. Electric cars are taking over. In Indonesia, leaders gambled they could propel the country into global electric vehicle supply chains by ...

In Istanbul on 27 February, Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, commonly known as the PKK, called on the organisation to dissolve itself and its militants to abandon ...

Among the Canberra national security commentariat, it has been hard to have a conversation in the past couple of years without someone mentioning “the archipelago”. This is the space in which the ...

In recent months, the China-Myanmar border has erupted into chaos as clashes between Myanmar’s military – the Tatmadaw – and ethnic armed organisations such as the Kachin Independence Army and the ...

Trump’s closure of USAID was no surprise, following a decade of similar closures by conservative governments in Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Britain. But the wholesale cancellation of USAID ...

There is a certain attractiveness to arguments that President Donald Trump’s blowing up of transatlantic relations will catalyse a rapprochement between Europe and China. At a time when Europe is ...

It is estimated that there are 3,800 shipwrecks scattered across the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Most date from the Second World War. However, shipwrecks are not an issue consigned to the past. In the ...

Asian geopolitics has changed rapidly in the recent past, and the pace of change is accelerating. This book, by one of India’s most senior and respected foreign policy minds, examines this moment of ...