The first 52 Chinese students to come to the United States arrived on 27 December 1978, less than two weeks after the two countries announced the establishment of diplomatic relations. By last year, ...

Ananya Sharma is an Assistant Professor at Ashoka University. Her research is situated at the intersection of international relations, post-colonial theory, and histories of internationalism from 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 ...

The world must return its focus to the fight against global poverty. The Covid-19 pandemic pushed millions more into extreme poverty while the global economic recovery thereafter has seen poorer ...

The Mar-a-Lago Accord is an idea floated by Stephen Miran, recently appointed Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers. Such a deal, Miran claims, would address the US current account and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beijing has taken steps to increase its influence in the island region at the same time as its aid levels decline. According to the Chinese government, Beijing has funded more than 100 aid projects in ...

In Taiwan, China’s state media and other outlets are increasingly using disinformation alongside more traditional methods to subvert rivals by sowing dissent and influencing politics and public ...

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 ...

A few days ago, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin hosted his counterparts from three allied nations – Japan, Australia and, crucially, the Philippines – in Hawaii, also home to the headquarters of the ...

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 ...