Bill Bishop an entrepreneur and former media executive with more than a decade’s experience living in and working in the PRC. He writes the Sinocism Newsletter, a daily publication about China, that ...

In the past fortnight, multi-party parliamentary delegations from India and Pakistan have stopped in London as part of a world tour. Having had the opportunity to interact with both delegations, one ...

The dominant strategic narrative presents the Indo-Pacific in binaries: democracies versus autocracies, the US-led order versus China’s challenge, AUKUS versus the PLA Navy. But this framing is not ...

Every five or six years, Canberra gets a special visit. This month, officials from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Paris secretariat, supported by two other OECD countries, ...

The fate of the subsea environment and the seabed are on the brink of a fundamental shift. Driven by the Trump administration’s recent sweeping changes to US national security and foreign and domestic ...

Australia’s housing challenges are largely framed around home ownership. But for many newcomers, especially international students, refugees, and young workers, the rental market is the frontline of ...

More than four years after the coup in Myanmar, ASEAN’s struggle to address the crisis has not only exposed institutional deadlock but also catalysed a decentralisation of regional diplomacy. While ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto campaigned on a promise of continuity and better economic performance. Is Prabowo living up to his campaign promises or taking the country in a new direction? The ...

Anthony Albanese missed out on the long-awaited face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump at the G7 meeting in Alberta and is now considering attending the NATO meeting at The Hague next week to try ...

With a riposte almost too good to be true, a Chinese emperor derided fumbling British attempts to curry favour with Beijing by insisting that “I set no value on objects strange and mysterious, and ...

Australia’s democratic stability makes it a welcome outlier as the state of global democracy has grown more discouraging with each passing year. The past two and a half decades have been marked by a ...