Australia’s critical minerals push is being sold as a strategic win, but it risks doubling down on a “dumb” commodity economy ...
BYD’s Brazil factory marks a clean-tech power shift: where China builds, countries reindustrialise and plug into the future ...
The UN Security Council’s resolution 2803 (2025) dated 17 November 2025 adopting President Trump’s 20-point peace plan to end ...
Agenda is a timely reminder for us to critically assess how far we have come in recognising and responding to [...] ...
Donald Trump’s tariff policies have disproportionately impacted ASEAN economies, disrupting exports, deterring investment, and straining US-ASEAN trade ties. To navigate these challenges, ASEAN ...
China’s relationship with the International Criminal Court stands in contrast to its dealings with other international institutions. Reasons for this include a history of colonialism and the need to ...
Largely unnoticed, the Afghan Taliban have been rapidly expanding a network of Madrassas to propagate their ideology to a captive audience. This may prove to be one of the most fearsome developments ...
The initial enthusiasm for the nearly US$30bn that China injected into Pakistan has now vanished. Rather, CPEC has become entangled in Pakistani domestic politics, even as the BRI has transformed ...
The Australian government asserts that China’s military buildup is the largest of any country in post-war history. Their threat perception is overblown. Such claims are hard to pin down since ...
Burkina Faso’s interim president, Ibrahim Traoré, has reignited Pan-African consciousness with a bold anti-imperialist agenda rooted in self-reliance, resource nationalism, and unity against ...