Dmitri Alperovitch is the author of World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century. In this Lowy Institute Conversation, he talks with Sam Roggeveen about China’s ...

Sweden also has official minority languages such as Finnish and Sámi, which are prominent in certain geographic areas. These ...

South Korea must be careful not to politicise high-level defections from the North. By politicising these defections in a democracy-versus-autocracy binary, the Yoon administration is exaggerating the ...

Beijing is determined to win the world over to its one-China principle, which holds that Taiwan is an “inalienable part” of ...

A new United Nations climate instrument to support the most vulnerable countries will make its mark if it follows six key ...

But Tonga’s military – with only 590 personnel including support staff, and today one of only three sovereign militaries in ...

The recent release of Zero Day, a Taiwanese TV show aimed at alerting viewers to the threat of blockade and invasion by the armed forces of the People Republic of China (PRC), signals a notable change ...

At a press conference in Tonga last week, Australia’s Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Pat Conroy, was quick to defend the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme when a ...

Afghanistan for years, focusing on a wide range of topics, including politics, conflict, human rights, and environmental issues. He holds a Master’s degree in International Development from Yeungnam ...

Australia and Indonesia signed a defence agreement last month, declared by both sides to be a significant upgrade to their military relationship. The question, however, centres on what is really ...