International trade has faced multiple shocks in recent years, making the need to reform the architecture of global trade more urgent than ever. Aligning new trade rules with global net-zero ambitions ...

An Indian warship sailed from Mumbai last month as part of an operation dubbed Indian Ocean Ship (IOS) Sagar. On board, in addition to the Indian crew, were 38 personnel from 16 countries, for a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the misnomers of the 2024 document was that it was a “defence” strategy. The reality is that it was a military strategy, largely devoid of the other elements that contribute to national defence ...

Indonesia has this week signed a Major Defence Cooperation Partnership with the United States, fuelling a debate about the future of the country’s long-held “independent and active” doctrine for ...

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 ...

In 2023, the Australian government adopted a “strategy of denial” to guide defence planning, defined as an “defensive approach designed to stop an adversary from succeeding in its goal to coerce ...

In the 48 years since Solomon Islands gained independence, only twice has a prime minister survived a full parliamentary term. No incumbent PM has ever been re-elected, and several governments have ...