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 ...

This is not an isolated lapse. The incident, like the Pulwama attack in 2019, once again exposes the glaring vulnerabilities in India’s intelligence and response mechanisms. In both cases, advance ...

In the PLA context, clientelist and professional relations can be seen in linkages between Xi and members of the so-called “Shaanxi Gang”, including Xi’s connections as a “princeling” to CMC Vice ...

Trincomalee – a strategically-located port city on the east coast of Sri Lanka – has ambition to transform into an energy hub under a three-way deal signed between India, Sri Lanka and the United Arab ...

The concerted pushback against Musk and Tesla in America itself, as well as places such as Germany and Canada, which have been the victims of Trump’s erratic policies, has caused a plunge in car sales ...

Like the 1985 Plaza Accord, part of the proposed solution is to force the rest of the world to appreciate their currencies to improve US export competitiveness. You can already see the effort here to ...

Roland Rajah is Director of the Indo-Pacific Development Centre, a dedicated policy research centre within the Lowy Institute. The Centre is committed to producing fresh policy insights and ideas on ...

China is widely assumed to be the biggest beneficiary, although the full extent of the impact remains unquantified. A back-of-the-envelope calculation, however, offers some insight into the upheaval ...

India–Bangladesh ties, once hailed as a “ model for bilateral relations for the entire region”, have declined rapidly since former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation in August last ...

The surface vessels are potent. Between them, the Renhai and Jiangkai II possess 152 vertical launch system (VLS) missile cells. Most of the missiles in these cells would be dedicated to hitting enemy ...

Senior US official statements more recently frame it as Xi seizing on 2027, the 100th anniversary of the PLA’s founding, to complete the material preparation required to make major combat operations ...

The biggest sector at risk is health, where US assistance – roughly $8 million annually – primarily funds HIV/AIDS programs and basic health services in Papua New Guinea and other Melanesian countries ...