After an initial period of diplomatic ambivalence at the United Nations, China now broadly seeks to reform the UN system from within through its “shared future” global governance vision — an agenda ...

With fewer Chinese finances available and less demand from Pacific countries, geopolitical competition is opening up. On the aid front, it might be less than most assume. The Lowy Institute Pacific ...

For the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic subsided, North Korea has sent a delegation led by Kim Song-nam, director of the international department of the Workers’ Party of Korea, to Southeast ...

The Tuesday firing (or resignation) of president Donald Trump’s third national security advisor, John Bolton, was hardly a surprise. The rift between the two men had been the subject of news pieces ...

Shyam Saran is a former Foreign Secretary of India and has served as Chairman of India’s National Security Advisory Board. In 2015 he was the Telstra Distinguished International Fellow at the Lowy ...

There will be a tendency in Australia to write off the American night raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro as an isolated incident in South America with little local relevance. A ...

The first Trump administration aspired to acquire Greenland; the second is now seriously increasing the pressure. Greenland, a large island in the Arctic, has been part of Denmark since 1814. Today, ...

Stephen Grenville's excellent column on the American critical reaction to Dan Wang's bestselling book Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, prompts me to recommend Wang's 2025 China letter, ...

There has been much written about Australia’s high-risk fuel security situation, noting that around 90% of the liquid fuel we use is derived from oil sourced from overseas, with most commentary ...

At the COP30 climate summit in Brazil in November 2025, Indonesia arrived with a pipeline of around 90 million tonnes of potential carbon credits, expecting nearly US$960 million in transactions. Yet ...