I was fortunate enough to return to Lowy in November last year as a distinguished visiting fellow. After conversations with a wide range of informed people across Sydney and Canberra – during the week ...

Since taking over Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban regime has faced escalating tensions with neighbouring countries, particularly over water issues and regional security. The regime’s deadly ...

Meta’s recent decision to dismantle its professional fact-checking program marks a significant shift in the company’s approach to moderating content across its platforms – including Facebook, ...

Chinese soldiers do not operate the Panama Canal. And the Panama government is not ripping off the consumers of the United States through inflated shipping rates. That’s the only possible conclusion ...

Their interests lay in supplying cheap cotton to British mills in return for being a market for factory-made goods from Manchester and Lancashire. As a contemporary economist Henry C. Carey wrote in ...

To ring in the new year, China’s homegrown jet, the C919 – nicknamed “daifeiji” (大飞机), or “Great Airplane” – took its first regularly scheduled passenger flight outside the Chinese mainland. The new ...

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) may soon have the support of a clear majority of countries to take control of Taiwan, with or without force, a new Lowy Institute Data Snapshot reveals. The report ...

As the year wound down, I embarked on my yearly journey back to Curaçao, my island home in the Caribbean. Where I grew up is almost literally a world away from the hustle of Seoul where I now live and ...

Many an eyebrow had raised both in Canada and internationally when US President-elect Donald Trump chose Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the first G7 leader to meet in person after the ...