Susannah Patton is Director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute and the Project Lead for the Asia Power Index, the Institute’s annual data-driven assessment that maps the changing ...

A month after the first report on North Korean troops being deployed to Russia, the United States and South Korea have confirmed that these troops have engaged in combat against Ukraine in Russia’s ...

Dr Abdul Rahman Yaacob is a Research Fellow in the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute. His research interests include Southeast Asia’s defence and security issues and the region’s relations ...

Within minutes of the announcement of Donald Trump’s second presidential victory, debates on European defence – which are as old as the European project itself – reemerged as European leaders and ...

Last month, as Prime Minister of Mauritius Pravind Jugnauth celebrated his victory in the long-running Chagos Islands dispute, he could hardly have imagined he would be forced to leave office just ...

China has regained its place as the second-largest bilateral donor to Pacific Island countries, narrowly edging out the United States, the 2024 edition of the Lowy Institute’s Pacific Aid Map reveals.

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During his first term as president, Donald Trump became the first-ever sitting US president to meet in-person with a North Korean leader – not once, but three times. He even went as far as stepping ...

At an inflection point where the world needs to reverse trends in emissions and energy consumption, AI is making it more difficult to meet climate commitments. Over the weekend at COP29 in Baku, ...