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 ...

Stephen Moran is an independent trade analyst. He was Senior Trade Analyst in the Office of National Assessments from 2010­ to 2021. Before that, he held various trade policy roles in the Department ...

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.

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 ...

In the past four months, the Trump administration has published more than 130 executive orders. Three categories of emerging policy – maritime strategy, energy, and critical minerals – are likely to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The dominant strategic narrative presents the Indo-Pacific in binaries: democracies versus autocracies, the US-led order versus China’s challenge, AUKUS versus the PLA Navy. But this framing is not ...

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 ...

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 ...

An unusual kind of tension is brewing in Northeast Asia. In a first, China deployed its Liaoning and Shandong aircraft carriers to the Pacific, generating fresh friction with Japan. The Chinese ...