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 ...
Donald Trump’s proclamation about reshaping North America and having Canada become “the 51st state” is but one land grab by the soon-to-be returned president. This may just be another of Trump’s ...
The Hon Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, Prime Minister of Samoa, delivered this address at the Lowy Institute in Sydney on Thursday, 30 August 2018. 30 August 2018 Check against delivery. Chairman Sir ...
The Australian government has released a new international development policy. Like all such policies, on its own it will not dramatically change the nature or performance of Australia’s development ...
The tale has become accepted diplomatic folklore. In the telling, it was Australia, back in 2008 in the early days of the Rudd government, that decided to scuttle the then-nascent Quadrilateral ...
In his essay for The Interpreter, Evan Laksmana set out three key sources of divergence between Indonesia and Australia: views of the United States, tensions between the role of ASEAN and new ...
The Seoul Central District Court last month delivered a verdict requiring the Japanese government to pay $US91,000 to 12 former “comfort women” who endured sexual ...
Over the years, countless attempts have been made to estimate the size of Myanmar’s armed forces (or Tatmadaw). However, the fact remains that no-one really knows. Despite the Tatmadaw’s critical role ...
Indonesia is becoming a wealthy nation, but still has an enormous number of very poor people, who are not doing well. This is why Indonesia now likes to see itself as an emerging aid donor rather than ...
After a spree of military exercises to protest US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei, China has released a white paper to “reiterate” its stance on Taiwan in the “new era”. The document is ...
From 2004 to 2023, Southeast Asian countries spent more than US$42 billion on weapons. Russia was the largest arms supplier in terms of value – cornering 25% of the Southeast Asian arms market – ...
Just as India was marginalised from regional economic integration sweeping Asia after the end of the Cold War – with its exclusion from APEC (established in 1989), the ASEAN+3 (formed in 1997), the ...
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