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

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 ...

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 ...

An accurate understanding of the balance of power in Asia is critical to the formulation of sound U.S. strategy on China. But none of these prevailing narratives get things quite right. Asia today is ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

India’s second Arihant-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine (SSBN), INS Arighaat, was commissioned into the Indian Navy on 29 August. The new submarine brings India one step closer to a nuclear ...