While Australia is a major producer of raw materials, it remains heavily dependent on China for midstream processing and downstream manufacturing.

Indeed, the election result in November was a victory both for Donald Trump and for the more than 100,000 users of online prediction markets, such as Polymarket, Kalshi and PredictIt, willing to make ...

We are featuring a series of highlights from across the year, with normal publishing to resume 6 January 2025. This article first appeared on 21 May 2024. It is commonly agreed that the Biden ...

Oliver (Oli) Nobetau is the 2024 FDC Pacific Fellow at the Lowy Institute. Working in the Institute’s Pacific Islands Program, he is on a one-year secondment from the Government of Papua New Guinea ...

Pacific Islands countries view Donald Trump’s impending return as US president with hope and apprehension. Trump’s attention on the region amid geopolitical tension with China could help address the ...

Bitter experience shows a “global” crisis can result from failures of domestic governance and regulatory oversight in the United States. Given the Trump family’s personal investments in crypto and the ...

At a time when Australia is increasingly looking to Japan and South Korea for closer strategic partnerships, the political tumult that has engulfed both countries in recent weeks raises serious ...

America’s 47th president will be sworn in on 20 January 2025. Headlines have been loud about the potential impact of Donald Trump’s return to the White House given his promises to unleash tough ...

In less than two months since assuming the Indonesian presidency, Prabowo Subianto has already visited six countries – China, United States, Peru, Brazil, the United Kingdom and the United Arab ...

While North Korea has yet to respond to the ongoing turmoil in the South, it’s a “Hermit Kingdom” in name only – Pyongyang will be watching with rapt attention. The declaration of martial law last ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced an historic treaty with Nauru President David Adeang, securing the financial future of the Pacific nation – or at least for the next five years ...

Sam Roggeveen is Director of the Lowy Institute’s International Security Program. He is the author of The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace, published by La Trobe University ...