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As the second Trump administration assembled, the Philippines appeared relatively sanguine about the prospects of stronger bilateral relations. The elevation of China hawks such as new Secretary of ...

As Australia’s chief voice on foreign affairs, Penny Wong has sought to project calm in the wake of Donald Trump’s tariffs – both those threatened and applied. “This is consistent with what President ...

Bucking the trend of expats leaving the city, I moved to Hong Kong in 2023, three years after the introduction of the controversial National Security Law (NSL). I was only an infant when Hong Kong was ...

The Trump administration has spent a week directing USAID and other government departments to remove any references to gender equality, women’s empowerment and LGBTQIA+ programs from their websites ...

In the face of geopolitical confrontation, technologies evolving faster than we can regulate them, populist politics and failing cooperation on climate, we must understand that the best way to manage ...

Over the more than 50 years since the floating of the US dollar, American economists have broadly agreed with US former Treasury Secretary Connolly’s 1971 message to the rest of the world: “It’s our ...

Over the past decade, the Oceania region has moved from what many thought was a backwater of global politics towards much greater centrality. A significant driver of Oceania’s greater prominence in ...

The Chairman of the Lowy Institute, Sir Frank Lowy AC, announced today that Susan B. Glasser, the Washington correspondent for The New Yorker, has joined the Lowy Institute Board. “Susan is one of the ...

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The return of President Donald Trump to the White House means another trade war between the United States and China looks increasingly likely, with the rest of the world caught in… ...