As the Beijing Auto Show wraps up for another year against the backdrop of a global fossil fuel supply crisis, it’s difficult to come to any conclusion other than your next passenger motor vehicle ...

Australia’s recently released National Defence Strategy highlighted the need for enhanced national resilience. However, it contained no discussion about how Australia might mobilise as a nation for ...

When conflict closed the Strait of Hormuz in early 2026, the economic consequences did not arrived in the Pacific overnight. But they did arrive within weeks. Kerosene prices rose 42%. Diesel climbed ...

Over the past few years, Starlink’s low-Earth orbit satellite internet service has entered the Pacific Islands region, bringing connectivity to communities long defined by their isolation. Regulatory ...

The policies designed to address climate change are, at times, undermining the very environmental and social objectives they are meant to support. What was once a clear contest between fossil fuels ...

Afghanistan is giving away its mineral wealth. Through a pattern of deals that export value at the point of extraction, the country is surrendering control over what could – and should – be its ...

Beijing has cast itself as a mediator between Pakistan and the Taliban, neighbours locked in a border conflict that was bound to erupt. China has leant on its ties to both sides to present itself as ...

Myanmar’s military is well versed in the art of obscuring language and manipulating narratives. More recently, it has moved to entrench its rule through the façade of a sham election to install a ...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a frank and impassioned speech at this year's World Economic Forum at Davos. He argued that in an era of great power competition, middle powers can no ...

In April, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga became the first foreign leader to meet US President Joe Biden at the White House. Suga’s trip marked the return of leader-level travel to Washington ...

The small, remote Mauritian island of North Agalega, located in the south-western Indian Ocean, 1,122 kilometres north of Mauritius, is currently a hive of construction activity. India sought access ...

Two weeks after the end of the hiatus on flights from India to Australia, the repatriation of the 9,000-plus Australian citizens who wish to return home has resumed, albeit slowly. But the ...