Tariffs are often dismissed as technicalities, but the oscillation of US duties on Indonesian products reveals a deeper reality. Once a leading voice of the Non-Aligned Movement, Indonesia continues ...

On his blog, Marginal Revolution, American economist Alex Tabarrok has made some unflattering comparisons between the way the US educational and scientific establishments responded to the Soviet ...

Post-election, Ishiba Shigeru continues to appear on television screens as the incumbent Prime Minister of Japan. The sheen of perspiration on his brow is not just the heat of this extraordinarily hot ...

Richard McGregor is Senior Fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute, Australia’s premier foreign policy think tank, in Sydney. Richard is a former Beijing and Washington bureau chief for the ...

Expanding the bloc to include nations such as Malaysia, Vietnam, and Thailand appears to be a move toward a more pluralistic, multipolar world order. But the reality may be different. As BRICS ...

A weekend report in the Financial Times that US Under Secretary of Defence for Policy Elbridge Colby has been privately pushing Australia and Japan for pre-commitment to support the US in a future ...

Today, the strategic calculus surrounding the importance of controlling maritime choke points remains unchanged. In Southeast Asia, the Strait of Malacca represents one of the world’s most critical, ...

There are already some early moves. Japan is investing in Australian mines and refining facilities. Australia has offered the United States preferential access to a planned critical minerals stockpile ...