The Philippines made history by handing over former president Rodrigo Duterte this month to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of crimes against humanity. In many ways, the move has ...

A weekend headline from the South China Morning Post declaring “China unveils a powerful deep-sea cable-cutter that could reset the world order” caught plenty of attention and amplified anxieties ...

The Trump administration has moved forward with a US$4.7 billion loan from the US Export-Import Bank for a massive new liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Mozambique. Backed by several European ...

The Mar-a-Lago Accord is an idea floated by Stephen Miran, recently appointed Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers. Such a deal, Miran claims, would address the US current account and ...

Last week, India hosted its premier geopolitical forum, the Raisina Dialogue, which provides an annual snapshot of how India understands its foreign policy and role in the world. Over ten years, the ...

Australia and Indonesia signed a Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) last year, reinforcing the existing Lombok Treaty while signalling a commitment to deeper practical cooperation. However, concerns ...

Over recent years, the Australian government has made concrete policy efforts aimed at supporting the Rohingya people in their homelands in Myanmar, in refugee camps in Bangladesh, and elsewhere in ...

What explains President Donald Trump’s foreign policy? Why does his administration bully allies with tariffs and threats of abandonment, and demand better trade balances and more defence spending, yet ...

The winds were at India’s back at the tenth Raisina Dialogue, a geopolitical conference held last week in New Delhi by the Observer Research Foundation and India’s Ministry of External Affairs. The ...

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Australians were recently given a wake-up call to China’s burgeoning blue-water naval capabilities, as a Chinese naval task force conducted multiple unannounced live-fire exercises in the seas between ...