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 ...

Last week, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from the UN Human Rights Council, cutting funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian ...

International aid efforts are in chaos as the Trump administration moves to brazenly dismantle the United States’ foreign aid program and reshape whatever is left in its own image. America’s foreign ...

The post-pandemic period in most economies has been characterised by skills shortages and budgetary pressure on government entitlement programs. These are consequences of demographic changes that, ...

“Oh, that’s a big one,” grinned Donald Trump, signing an executive order in his first moments returning to office, giving notice of his intent to withdraw the United States from the World Health ...

One practical innovation in ensuring the robustness of foreign relations is mandatory use of national interest analysis (NIA). In countries such as Australia and New Zealand, an NIA is built into ...

US President Donald Trump has claimed Australia broke a 2018 verbal agreement on restraining Australian aluminium exports to America. That deal, successfully negotiated by the Turnbull government, had ...

The US aid freeze won’t break the Pacific, but it will create unnecessary disruptions. For Southeast Asia, the consequences are mixed, likely to hit Myanmar and Cambodia hardest, as well as those ...

In Hungary, opposition parties have struggled to gain traction against the 15-year “illiberal democracy” government led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Institutional and media dominance favours the ...

At first glance, Donald Trump and Muhammad Yunus – the de facto head of Bangladesh’s government since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was overthrown six months ago – have very little in common. Yunus won ...

As the small plane approached the runway, the banners had already started to wave in celebration. The aircraft, an ATR 42-500, had just 50 seats – not the usual jumbo expected at an international ...

The Trump administration is taking an axe to the world’s biggest foreign aid program, dismantling its US Agency for International Development and freezing billions of dollars in foreign assistance.