It’s Balikatan (“shoulder-to-shoulder”) season for Washington and Manila. Over the last two weeks, 14,000 troops from the United States, Philippines, Australia, and Japan have been taking part in the ...

Chinese ship visits to Australia don’t always generate alarm and controversy. Visits by Chinese scientific research vessels are also a reminder that the benefits of such visits might also prove ...

During this 2025 election season, Pacific issues have been well outside the spotlight in key debates. But Pacific Islands are still closely following the campaign, as they see a stake in Australian ...

Only a year after its re-election, the “OUR” government in Solomon Islands has collapsed. At least ten ministers and backbenchers, including Manasseh Sogavare as finance minister, have resigned from ...

After the serenity of Baisaran Valley near Pahalgam in Indian-held Kashmir was shattered last week by a brutal attack, the urgent need is not only collective mourning but honest reflection. But ...

As Donald Trump set about to single-handedly reorganise global trade and supply chain flows, only one headline seems to have given him pause. In times of market stress US Treasuries are the safe haven ...

The Singaporean General Election has been called for 3 May, where the People’s Action Party (PAP), in power since 1959, seeks to inaugurate the new “Fourth Generation” (4G) leadership under newly ...

If Donald Trump hopes that looming port penalties on Chinese-built and/or owned ships will have the desired effect of reviving America’s ailing shipyards, he is certain to be disappointed. “We’re way, ...

It’s 2025, yet we’re still talking about Southeast Asian countries as outposts – spheres of influence, in wonk speak – for imperial influence. Ten years since the great power competition framework ...

With terrorists killing at least 26 civilians, including toursts and locals, in an idyllic and popular meadow near Pahalgam in Indian Kashmir on 22 April, the conflict in the region has entered a new ...

The recent state visit by China’s President Xi Jinping to Phnom Penh, capped by 37 new agreements and a pledge to deepen an “all-weather Cambodia-China community of shared future”, was intended to ...

It is hard not to spare a thought for economists at the International Monetary Fund, required to produce a global economic outlook in the eye of the deglobalisation being pursued by the Trump ...