In a show of what appeared to be humble pie, Myanmar’s junta boss acknowledged that the scale of Friday’s earthquake would be beyond Myanmar’s capabilities and “invited” an international response to ...

Last month, three Chinese naval vessels conducted live-fire exercises in the Tasman Sea without prior notification to Canberra while on a voyage circling Australia. The drills not only heightened ...

Donald Trump may have well and truly trashed most of the conventional interpretations of American exceptionalism in little more than two months in office. However, it says a lot about the enduring ...

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 ...

At last week’s Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi, the Philippines’ Armed Forces Chief didn’t mince words, calling on India and South Korea to join an Indo-Pacific “Squad” to push back against China’s ...

Rather than setting off a cascade of countries withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, the US president may have achieved the opposite. It is astounding what Donald Trump gets away with by using a ball ...

The big question for Australia’s pre-election aid budget released this week was how it would respond to a global development landscape in turmoil. Deep aid cuts by the United States and, to a lesser ...

Australia’s election campaign formally kicked off today, with a vote to be held on 3 May. Labor, under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, presently holds a narrow majority in parliament, with Opposition ...

Vietnam was one of the biggest beneficiaries of the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump during his first term. This time, Vietnam could be among the biggest casualties. Trump’s first term tariffs on China ...

For all the talk of alignment, Australia has no influence with North Korea, and South Korea has different interests with China. Despite these efforts, Australia has little real influence over North ...

When Chinese technology start-up DeepSeek shocked financial markets in January, having reportedly developed an AI system for just $6 million comparable to OpenAI offerings costing in the billions, ...

The Houthis have proven resilient in the face of strikes. The Trump administration’s strikes this month on Yemen are not the first effort to disrupt the ongoing attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. The ...