For some time now, Ukraine has been undertaking a long-range strike campaign against targets inside Russia. It has done this to degrade Russia’s war-making capacity by attacking factories and oil ...

Every five or six years, Canberra gets a special visit. This month, officials from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Paris secretariat, supported by two other OECD countries, ...

The fate of the subsea environment and the seabed are on the brink of a fundamental shift. Driven by the Trump administration’s recent sweeping changes to US national security and foreign and domestic ...

For decades, much of the world was expected to fall in line with one of two powers: follow Washington’s lead or move into Beijing’s orbit. From infrastructure lending to digital finance, global ...

The election of a new South Korean president on 3 June marks the opportunity for a fresh chapter in inter-Korean ties and security on the Korean Peninsula. Relations between North and South reached ...

During the recent International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings, US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent criticised both institutions for mission creep and stressed the need for them to “step ...

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, ...

Papua New Guinea wants to better leverage foreign partnerships for its international education strategy. At the same time this will allow national and local authorities to assert greater agency in ...

There is near universal agreement that Australia should spend more money on defence. The big political parties want to spend more. The defence commentariat overwhelmingly agrees. And earlier this week ...

A Dassault Rafale fighter jet (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images) For France, following the setback after Australia cancelled a major submarine deal in favour of nuclear-powered boats under the ...

When King Charles delivered the throne speech to open the Canadian parliament last month, British journalist Martin Kettle sought to capture the rare and elaborate occasion:. The idea that a vibrant ...

With a riposte almost too good to be true, a Chinese emperor derided fumbling British attempts to curry favour with Beijing by insisting that “I set no value on objects strange and mysterious, and ...