Three years ago, Russian forces moved across the Ukrainian northern, eastern and southern frontiers, as well as in a coordinated series of missile and air assault actions, in the hope of a short, ...

In February 2024, New Zealand’s national government explored an interest in joining AUKUS Pillar II, the strand of the Australia–UK–US security partnership responsible for the sharing of advanced ...

The fate of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the premier aid organisation in the US government, hangs in the balance. But it is not Donald Trump alone that can decide its fate, and ...

Over the past months, I’ve had the opportunity to share and exchange ideas with European politicians, analysts and intellectuals. What struck me was not just the familiar sense of concern, but a ...

For several years, the US security establishment appeared fixated on the year 2027 as the deadline set by Xi Jinping to compel Taiwan with military force. First raised by then-INDOPACOM commander ...

US President Donald Trump has claimed Australia broke a 2018 verbal agreement on restraining Australian aluminium exports to America. That deal, successfully negotiated by the Turnbull government, had ...

The US aid freeze won’t break the Pacific, but it will create unnecessary disruptions. For Southeast Asia, the consequences are mixed, likely to hit Myanmar and Cambodia hardest, as well as those ...

The latest tariff news coming from the Trump administration is that they will calculate all support given to a country’s domestic firms as anti-competitive subsidies and all taxes imposed on imports ...

In the years leading up to the pandemic, senior diplomats and foreign ministry officials from China began to adopt a pugnacious and overtly nationalist tone to official statements, media comments and ...

“Oh, that’s a big one,” grinned Donald Trump, signing an executive order in his first moments returning to office, giving notice of his intent to withdraw the United States from the World Health ...

At first glance, Donald Trump and Muhammad Yunus – the de facto head of Bangladesh’s government since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was overthrown six months ago – have very little in common. Yunus won ...