Chinese soldiers do not operate the Panama Canal. And the Panama government is not ripping off the consumers of the United States through inflated shipping rates. That’s the only possible conclusion ...

Acquiring Greenland would now appear to be a foreign policy priority for the incoming Trump administration. Reviving his 2019 proposal for a US takeover of the territory, an idea thought to have been ...

In a recent Interpreter article, Daniel Flitton suggested that public opinion on nuclear-related issues may be shifting, with the 2024 Lowy Institute Poll finding that 61 per cent… ...

Their interests lay in supplying cheap cotton to British mills in return for being a market for factory-made goods from Manchester and Lancashire. As a contemporary economist Henry C. Carey wrote in ...

My first trip to the Lowy Institute was in 2011. It was a different era. It was the year of Barack Obama’s “pivot” to Asia. The joint statement that followed Hu Jintao’s visit to Washington was full ...

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Since taking over Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban regime has faced escalating tensions with neighbouring countries, particularly over water issues and regional security. The regime’s deadly ...

Olena Guseinova is a Lecturer at the Graduate School of International and Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), Seoul, Korea. Concurrently, she holds the position of Nonresident ...

Manmohan Singh, India’s prime minister from 2004 to 2014, passed away on 26 December 2024 in New Delhi, aged 92. Born in Gah, a small village in what is today Pakistan’s Punjab province, his family ...