Cuddly pandas symbolise a generous, friendly and peaceful China. Panda loan announcements, often made during state visits by Chinese leaders, receive extensive local and international media coverage.

Plans for Donald Trump's second-term inauguration are well underway, with his transition team straight to work announcing appointments. Lowy Institute Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove has ...

India’s economic liberalisation in the early 1990s led to a dizzying growth in Indians migrating to America. Many believe that fear of a revanchist China is causing Washington and Delhi to cosy up.

Bitter experience shows a “global” crisis can result from failures of domestic governance and regulatory oversight in the United States. Given the Trump family’s personal investments in crypto and the ...

In April 2015, Mary Jane Veloso was moved to Nusa Kambangan, a maximum security prison island in Indonesia. The plan had been to execute her by firing squad with other death row prisoners, including ...

Headlines have been loud about the potential impact of Donald Trump’s return to the White House given his promises to unleash tough tariffs as he embarks on implementing his version of US ...

In the northern winter of 2022, as Russian armour and troops massed on Ukraine’s borders, a highly effective psychological operation was reaching a crescendo. For several months, Russian diplomats had ...

Australia is still conducting disaster diplomacy in a reactive, myopic and piecemeal fashion, mostly bilaterally.

Of all the imponderable factors, the prospect of single individuals changing the course of world affairs carries the most intrigue. Without Vladimir Putin, does a revanchist Russia go on a rampage?

In the nearly three years since Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine of February 2022, many nations have re-examined their national security postures, defence budgets and alliances. The government ...

What implications will this carry for negotiations and global climate action, especially in the Pacific, where climate change is an existential threat? Crunch time to remain under the 1.5. degrees ...