South Korea must be careful not to politicise high-level defections from the North. By politicising these defections in a democracy-versus-autocracy binary, the Yoon administration is exaggerating the ...

The Interpreter features daily commentary and analysis on international issues. The site is edited by Daniel Flitton and research editor Clare Caldwell, along with founding editor Sam Roggeveen. In ...

In 2024, for the first time ever, bilateral trade between India and Taiwan exceeded US$10 billion. And in the past six months alone, governments and businesses in the two countries have agreed on ...

Google is laying new submarine cables along Australia’s northern and western approaches. The routes will link to a planned Google AI data centre on Christmas Island, likely building on an existing ...

While Western powers urge China to help end the Ukraine war, Beijing shows little urgency in pushing Russia to halt its military operations. The world’s second-largest economy benefits both ...

In light of the terrible events in Bondi, Sydney, yesterday, it's worth revisiting last month's Lowy Lecture by the head of Australia's domestic intelligence service, ASIO. Burgess spoke at length ...

Final touch-ups were being made to the RAMSI gallery at Honiara’s National Museum on the languid mid-November afternoon I visited. Opened in 2017, the gallery commemorated the end of the fourteen-year ...

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 ...