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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While Australia is a major producer of raw materials, it remains heavily dependent on China for midstream processing and downstream manufacturing.

Last month’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake near Vanuatu caused widespread devastation and left at least a dozen people dead. The disaster also exposed a critical vulnerability in Vanuatu’s digital ...

Indeed, the election result in November was a victory both for Donald Trump and for the more than 100,000 users of online prediction markets, such as Polymarket, Kalshi and PredictIt, willing to make ...

The Moscow-Pyongyang partnership has crossed into uncharted territory. The major shift in the dynamics of North Korea-Russia relations was epitomised by Kim Jong-un’s decision to bolster Vladimir ...