Richard McGregor was Senior Fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute, and a former Beijing and Washington bureau chief for the Financial Times and the author of numerous books on East Asia.

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Jennifer Parker is a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute and Adjunct Fellow in Naval Studies at the University of Western Australia. In 2023, the Australian government adopted a “strategy of ...

Commercial extraction may arrive as early as 2027, but without a rulebook — Australia must enter the fray. Catch-up on the visit from the Prime Minister of Canada, who reiterated that the rules-based ...

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Fake news is harder to spot than ever. Young voters need to get savvy before the country’s 2022 election. Subscribe to The Informer for monthly expert analysis, and to Events for advance notice of ...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has been taking advantage of China’s growing Russophilia. During a visit to China in May, Putin and Xi Jinping announced that 2024 and 2025 will be China-Russia Years ...

An assessment of the size and shape of the PLA's growing capabilities in the Indo-Pacific. Special-operation soldiers aboard the missile frigate Yueyang, a Type 054A (Jiangkai-II class) multi-role ...

This position challenges the realist approach to international relations, which emphasises power, national interest, and the anarchic nature of the global system. Realists argue that states act ...

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The past few weeks have been a maelstrom for geopolitics. The Oval Office meeting between Presidents Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump shocked the world. However, two events in the past 48 hours ...