Spurred by British Prime Minister’s Rishi Sunak’s unexpected election promise to re-introduce a form of national service in the United Kingdom, a range of voices in Australia have suggested Australia ...

Thailand’s National Anti-Corruption Commission announced recently it will indict 44 former MPs of the now-dissolved progressive Move Forward Party for seeking to amend Section 112 of Thailand’s ...

The Mar-a-Lago Accord is an idea floated by Stephen Miran, recently appointed Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers. Such a deal, Miran claims, would address the US current account and ...

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 ...

For several years, the US security establishment appeared fixated on the year 2027 as the deadline set by Xi Jinping to compel Taiwan with military force. First raised by then-INDOPACOM commander ...

This inescapably creates a risk, allowing China to wield its market domination to coerce others. Yet in a recent Interpreter article, Marina Yue Zhang and Xunpeng (Roc) Shi glossed over these risks ...

Indonesia has officially become a new BRICS partner, joining countries such as Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Türkiye, Nigeria, Cuba and Kazakhstan. Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Sugiono announced this ...

The new year has begun with a rush of events. In Europe, governments are posturing for the arrival of the second Donald Trump administration. On his first day in office, Trump signed around 100 ...

Arming Ukraine sufficiently is a matter of money and industrial capacity outside the United States (President Of Ukraine/Flickr) A prosperous, democratic Ukraine in the current de facto borders, with ...

Since Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV for short) joined the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in quick succession in the late 1990s, the region’s peak organisation has held ...

Clean energy transition has emerged as a new frontier in the US-China strategic competition, broadening the scope of the ongoing “chip war” and casting global repercussions.Nations are vying for ...

The decades-old dispute between Russia and Japan over the status of the Kuril Islands is far from over. Tokyo, which refers to the islands as the Northern Territories, still insists on a peace treaty ...