Sunday 12 April 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the passing of one of America’s greatest presidents. Unlike the current incumbent, Franklin D. Roosevelt took the oath of office during the depths of ...

For decades, the tiger economies of the ASEAN region have flourished under an export-led growth model, anchored by strong trade relationships with major economies, including the United States and ...

If, like me, you’ve had the (mis)fortune of attending a few too many dinner parties in Sydney, then you’d be well-acquainted with Australians’ preoccupation with home ownership. Older Australians are ...

Most commentary around “Signalgate” – which saw The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg added to a White House group chat by National Security Advisor Michael Waltz – has criticised the apparent ...

As the world gears up for COP30 in Brazil and the hopefully soon-to-be-announced COP31 in Australia (co-hosted with the Pacific), the urgency of the climate crisis has never been more apparent. Yet, ...

As Australians head to the polls on 3 May, the stakes for foreign policy in the Indo-Pacific are quietly profound. From where I sit in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, the debate in Australia around national ...

Central Asia is suddenly winning friends and attention. In 2023, Germany set up the “Germany – Central Asia” platform, holding its first summit in September that year in Berlin. A year later, ...

The media typically only has enough space to focus on one big story at a time. Trump’s tariffs are dominating now. Last week it was “Signal-gate”, after a journalist was added to a White House-led ...

One potentially revealing way of thinking about the respective strengths and weaknesses of the American and Chinese approaches to politics and economics is to consider the performance of their car ...

South Korea’s Constitutional Court has today unanimously upheld the impeachment of President Yoon Suk-yeol and removed him from power. This marks Yoon as the shortest serving democratically elected ...

For more than a century since its publication in 1922, TS Eliot’s The Waste Land has inspired. The poem’s (and poet’s) fans are legion and varied. They include those from 1930s China who saw the work ...

China’s People’s Liberation Army this week deployed the aircraft carrier Shandong alongside 19 warships in military exercises encircling Taiwan. Initially conducted without an official codename – a ...