On his blog, Marginal Revolution, American economist Alex Tabarrok has made some unflattering comparisons between the way the US educational and scientific establishments responded to the Soviet ...

Post-election, Ishiba Shigeru continues to appear on television screens as the incumbent Prime Minister of Japan. The sheen of perspiration on his brow is not just the heat of this extraordinarily hot ...

Tariffs are often dismissed as technicalities, but the oscillation of US duties on Indonesian products reveals a deeper reality. Once a leading voice of the Non-Aligned Movement, Indonesia continues ...

Expanding the bloc to include nations such as Malaysia, Vietnam, and Thailand appears to be a move toward a more pluralistic, multipolar world order. But the reality may be different. As BRICS ...

Richard McGregor is Senior Fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute, Australia’s premier foreign policy think tank, in Sydney. Richard is a former Beijing and Washington bureau chief for the ...

Australia’s dialogue partner relationship with ASEAN is more suitable for Australian interests in Southeast Asia than the idea of ASEAN membership.

While economic issues are expected to dominate Indonesia’s presidential election campaign ahead of a ballot next year, there are signs that the country’s political elite are not above exploiting ...

The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been some of the most significant supporters of Ukraine following the invasion by Russia in February 2022, contributing the highest percentage ...

By understanding Cambodia’s threat perceptions and the influence of the kingdom’s domestic politics on its defence and foreign policies, Western partners will be better able to balance China’s ...

China is more influential than the United States in a number of measures in Southeast Asia and has increased its lead over the past five years.

Senior US official statements more recently frame it as Xi seizing on 2027, the 100th anniversary of the PLA’s founding, to complete the material preparation required to make major combat operations ...

The canal project may bring economic benefits to Cambodia, however, it has lead to mounting concerns within neighbouring Vietnam. Water security is a particular concern, with the canal is thought to ...