Over the past couple of years, a consensus among analysts and scholars has emerged: except in the Philippines, the United States is losing ground to China in Southeast Asia. Whether it’s a lack of ...
It was warm and humid as I stepped out of my vehicle to greet the commander of the Australian Army’s elite 3rd Brigade at the High Range training area near Townsville, Queensland, last week. The ...
Australians have long known that our future security and prosperity will be determined in our region – the Indo-Pacific. Forty years of reports to government have warned that if Australia wants to ...
The twin messages from the spectacle that unfolded in Tiananmen Square on 3 September could not be missed. China’s military parade, watched over by Xi Jinping as he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with ...
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi is expected in Papua New Guinea this weekend to sign an agreement clearing the way for PNG’s agricultural exports to enter the Chinese market. This step has already ...
The South China Sea has always been a flashpoint for regional tension, but the next phase of its militarisation might not be about aircraft carriers or submarines. It might be about ships with no ...
Maholopa (Maho) Laveil was the inaugural FDC Pacific Fellow at the Lowy Institute. He worked in the Institute’s Pacific Islands Program as part of a one year secondment from the University of Papua ...
Vietnam recently banned the film Uncharted from domestic distribution due to a scene depicting an “illegal image” of China’s infamous “nine-dash line”. This is not the first time popular culture has ...
Doubts about America’s capacity to build and then sell to Australia a series of Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines (SSNs) under the AUKUS agreement have led Matthew Mai to conclude that “It is ...
China is currently undertaking the largest military expansion in its modern history. According to a recent US Intelligence Community assessment, Beijing’s objective is to become the “preeminent power ...
The Hon Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, Prime Minister of Samoa, delivered this address at the Lowy Institute in Sydney on Thursday, 30 August 2018. 30 August 2018 Check against delivery. Chairman Sir ...
In the Pacific, gender equality is a key policy concern for international donors and Pacific governments and civil society organisations. But decades of investment in gender equality programs have ...
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