With Chinese development finance flowing into the Pacific and Western aid in record retreat, Canberra can’t outspend Beijing.

In the wake of COVID-19 shocks to the global supply chain, countries are moving fast to shore up semiconductor supply chains ...

As Brazil votes, Washington’s revived Monroe Doctrine leans on coercion and transnational digital campaigning, exposing the limits of US influence and international law. Brazilians vote today in an ...

As maritime chokepoints grow more volatile, states are racing to redraw the global map of trade. Geopolitical competition is enhancing the role of Eurasia’s overland corridors, reviving ancient Silk ...

Brazilians will go to the polls in October this year. The Master Bank scandal, although entangling both sides of politics, could lead to the consolidation of Brazil’s far-right. Few presidential [...] ...

When access to frontier AI models that promise to provide a decisive strategic advantage is withheld, adversaries may be tempted to MAIM: negotiate, steal, or destroy. But the calculus changes [...] ...

Indonesia came away from Vladivostok with a signed fertiliser agreement, yet the moment that went viral was a pen spinning in the Cabinet Secretary’s fingers. It is a small lapse [...] ...

Dr Juan Zahir Naranjo Cáceres is a scholar based at the University of the Sunshine Coast. He holds a PhD in International Relations and Political Science, working at the intersection [...] ...

Tokyo’s plan to fund a Natuna port upgrade fits neatly into Prabowo’s push to modernise Indonesia’s strategic ports, but it ...

Australia’s new fuel reserve secures how much fuel the country has on hand. It does less to answer where the next cargo will ...

Three days of ceremony in Washington produced no grand bargain, but that was never the point. Beijing came for something ...

As China is deepening its influence across Latin America’s strategic mineral supply chains, Australia faces an increasing ...