Forty years after independence, Papua New Guinea is the largest single recipient of aid from Australia. Yet Australians seem to be largely ambivalent about the country. Few Australians know the ...

Hannah Denson holds a Master’s in International and Development Economics at ANU where she focused on the economics of the Indo-Pacific. Hannah has spent her career working at Australian Treasury in ...

Foreign aid is set to be slashed in the United States, jeopardising lives, and throwing global programs into turmoil. With the United Kingdom now following suit and an Australian federal election on ...

Hidan Kim is a first year student at Cornell University’s College of Arts and Sciences studying Asian Studies and Information Science. He is the founder and co-president of Letter for Letterless, ...

China has not missed the opportunity posed by the United States’ economic self-immolation to present itself as a responsible champion of the international trading system. Mid-April, shortly after the ...

If Australia wants a role model for how to present itself to the world, the tennis champ embodies humility and grit.

Stay informed with the latest commentary and analysis on international events from experts at the Lowy Institute and around the world.

For several years, the US security establishment appeared fixated on the year 2027 as the deadline set by Xi Jinping to compel Taiwan with military force. First raised by then-INDOPACOM commander ...

Australia should articulate and pursue a disciplined Taiwan strategy that uses the flexibility of its one-China policy to increase engagement with Taipei in service of Australian economic and security ...

How times change. Only three years ago, President-elect Donald Trump declared cryptocurrencies to be a “scam” and a threat to the primacy of the dollar in the international economy. We think he was ...

Despite years of international policy efforts to bring down the cost of sending money home, fees for overseas workers remitting to Pacific Island countries are among the most expensive in the world.