Dr Milton Osborne was a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. He has been associated with Southeast Asia for more than 60 years since being posted to the Australian ...

Dr Abdul Rahman Yaacob is a Research Fellow in the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute. His research interests include Southeast Asia’s defence and security issues and the region’s relations ...

China has not missed the opportunity posed by the United States’ economic self-immolation to present itself as a responsible champion of the international trading system. Mid-April, shortly after the ...

In an unprecedented political comeback, former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte won the race to be mayor of Davao City during the May elections, a post he held for over two decades before he ...

In global politics, every gesture counts, including the clothes and adornments world leaders choose. A strategically placed accessory or a well-tailored suit speak not only of power but of ideology – ...

There is near universal agreement that Australia should spend more money on defence. The big political parties want to spend more. The defence commentariat overwhelmingly agrees. And earlier this week ...

The US imposition of a universal 10% tariff on all imports, along with proposed additional duties of up to 50% for trade-surplus countries, triggered renewed urgency across the Indo-Pacific region to ...

It has been five years since Australia and India signed a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership and decided to make their relationship stand for more than just the familiar three C’s of Commonwealth, ...

When China’s Premier Li Qiang touched down in Jakarta last month, he was welcomed with the usual fanfare of red carpets, military salutes and photo ops. But what stood out wasn’t the ceremony – it was ...

For some time now, Ukraine has been undertaking a long-range strike campaign against targets inside Russia. It has done this to degrade Russia’s war-making capacity by attacking factories and oil ...

In the period between Trump’s thumping election win and his inauguration, I was asked to compile a set of short-term scenarios for a multinational company that was highly exposed to US policy risk.