American economic policy has shifted towards government intervention, including industrial policy and away from free-trade. US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan set out the powerful ...

The United States has lost influence to China in Southeast Asia over the past five years in all four categories measured by the Asia Power Index: economic relationships, defence networks, diplomatic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong is not one for hyperbole, so when she states that the “coming decade will be decisive for peace, stability and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific”, in her foreword to Australia ...

In August 2023, Cambodia sent an official notice to the Mekong River Commission flagging the construction of a new major canal project on the Mekong River. The Mekong, long a source of regional bounty ...

Many policymakers tend to ignore the points of fundamental strategic divergence between Indonesia and Australia. Public disagreements ­– say, over the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine deal – are seen ...

Although the “rules-based international order” is central to Australian strategy, what exactly this concept means remains a work very much in progress. For Australia to achieve its objectives for the ...

In his last months as president, Donald Trump signed an executive order with the potential to upend the modern US federal bureaucracy. Known as “Schedule F”, the order laid out sweeping plans to strip ...

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 ...

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