Second, it isn’t clear how the ADF would properly equip a large pool of trained reservists – typically one of the benefits of national service. For example, 30,000 conscripts might be trained annually ...

On 1 March, New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rt Hon Winston Peters, delivered an address at the Lowy Institute. New Zealand’s coalition government was formed with ...

Thailand’s National Anti-Corruption Commission announced recently it will indict 44 former MPs of the now-dissolved progressive Move Forward Party for seeking to amend Section 112 of Thailand’s ...

The International Energy Agency has released its annual “ World Energy Outlook 2023 ”, a report that tracks the global transition to net zero emissions. The report contains the latest trends from ...

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 ...

Sheridan Ward is a researcher on non-militarisation and countries without sovereign military institutions. She holds a BA in International Security from the ANU and a Masters of Sustainable ...

Céline Pajon is Head of Japan Research at the Center for Asian and Indo-Pacific Studies of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), Paris. She also coordinates the research program on ...

Bill Bishop an entrepreneur and former media executive with more than a decade’s experience living in and working in the PRC. He writes the Sinocism Newsletter, a daily publication about China, that ...

Lai won the election and was inaugurated last month. Still, this came after countless fabricated or exaggerated rumours, articles, and pictures were disseminated through social media and emails to ...

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 ...

Even before the establishment of the Squad it was apparent that the Quad was shifting away from its original mandate of maritime security. The Quad or the “Quadrilateral Security Dialogue” emerged in ...

Applying a new methodology to the data collected by the Lowy Institute for the Asia Power Index between 2018 and 2022, this report yields an in-depth analysis of the relative influence of the two ...