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2024 US Election Mini-Poll. Australians’ support for Republican US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has declined substantially since Vice President Kamala Harris replaced President Joe Biden as the Democrats’ candidate, new polling from the Lowy Institute shows.
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The Black Seabattle: Learningthe rightmaritime lessonsfrom Ukraine. Ukraine’s effective strategy in the Black Sea offers a masterclass in how a smaller, determined naval force can challenge a much larger one. Chietigj Bajpaee 2 days ago.
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: Why and why now? - Lowy Institute
Published 22 Jun 2023. Russia. Ukraine. Follow @IAHill. Bogged down in a grinding war of attrition in eastern Ukraine, and now facing a counter-offensive by Kyiv, Russia’s folly and miscalculation in invading its neighbour last February seems obvious. It begs the question of why Vladimir Putin launched his invasion, and why now.
Philippines: diagnosing the infodemic - Lowy Institute
2021年12月1日 · The Philippines is less than a year away from its national elections in May 2022, and an estimated 5.8 million first-time voters (aged 18–23) are expected to join around 63 million mostly young voters trooping to the polling stations. Given the persistent risks due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the prospect of continued mobility restrictions, it is likely that online campaign platforms will ...
But what does “rules-based order” mean? | Lowy Institute
2020年11月2日 · Although the term “rules-based international order” was only coined after the Cold War, Canberra typically dates it to the aftermath of the Second World War and the institutions and norms – centred on the UN – that were established then. It is often credited with having delivered 70 years of peace and security.
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2024 Asia Power Index. A comprehensive assessment of the changing distribution of power in Asia, ranking 27 countries and territories through 131 indicators. By Susannah Patton, Jack Sato, Hervé Lemahieu. Podcasts.
Global poverty is still a massive problem - Lowy Institute
2024年2月14日 · The World Bank says the first of the Sustainable Development Goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 will not be met, projecting 574 million people – nearly 7 percent of the world – to still be living on less than US$2.15 a day, or what is known as the extreme poverty line. We also cannot forget that $2.15 a day is a very low bar.
Under pressure: the present and future of international order
2022年10月17日 · Beijing agreed to such rules too, when it signed the Convention on the Law of the Sea, despite its subsequent activities in the South China Sea, and when it made international commitments safeguarding Hong Kong’s political autonomy, which it has since abridged, and when it joined the core UN human rights treaties, though it violates them at home.
Mixed report card: China’s influence at the United Nations
2022年12月18日 · China is a founding member of the United Nations, though the People’s Republic of China (PRC) only assumed the China seat in 1971. Until that point, the Republic of China (ROC) occupied the China seat, with the Kuomintang asserting that the ROC retained representation of China, despite its defeat by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and relocation from the mainland to the island of Taiwan.