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 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 ...

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 ...

For decades, much of the world was expected to fall in line with one of two powers: follow Washington’s lead or move into Beijing’s orbit. From infrastructure lending to digital finance, global ...

The return of Donald Trump to the White House is likely to harden China’s foreign policy ambitions to fracture the US-led global order, Richard McGregor argues in a new Lowy Institute Special Feature.