The climate is warming. Ice is melting. Storms are brewing. We are at five minutes to midnight, with disasters set to increase in frequency and intensity. Climate change is now widely accepted, ...

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 ...

The Interpreter features daily commentary and analysis on international issues. The site is edited by Daniel Flitton and research editor Clare Caldwell, along with founding editor Sam Roggeveen. In ...

The multinational presence in the Red Sea has failed to supress Houthi attacks from Yemen on merchant shipping in the Red Sea. Open-source assessment makes this clear. Data collected by the ...

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 ...

Those who retain ties with Taiwan view Beijing’s interference and investment in the Pacific with suspicion and are concerned over aid with strings attached. Palau is an important strategic island in ...

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 ...

Getting the leaders of five Asia-Pacific nations together for the photograph amidst the tumult of a APEC Leaders Summit in Port Moresby last November was a triumph of logistics. But the last-minute ...

When Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States announced the AUKUS trilateral security cooperation agreement a year ago, it didn’t get a uniformly positive reception in Southeast Asia. Given ...

Reports of Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili’s recent visit to China and his meeting with President Xi Jinping suggest that Beijing remains interested in the Middle Corridor. The Middle ...

US-China competition resulting in economic and technological decoupling is motivating small and middle powers to create middle-ground alternatives. In that context, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar ...

The waters off Mozambique are becoming a major new security hotspot in the Indian Ocean. An Islamist insurrection in northern Mozambique that the government seems powerless to suppress has also ...