One potentially revealing way of thinking about the respective strengths and weaknesses of the American and Chinese approaches to politics and economics is to consider the performance of their car ...

The media typically only has enough space to focus on one big story at a time. Trump’s tariffs are dominating now. Last week it was “Signal-gate”, after a journalist was added to a White House-led ...

Muhammad Daniel Azlan Mahadzir is an award-winning clinical nutritionist and sciencepreneur working at the intersection of food security, digital health, and planetary health. His doctoral research, ...

For more than a century since its publication in 1922, TS Eliot’s The Waste Land has inspired. The poem’s (and poet’s) fans are legion and varied. They include those from 1930s China who saw the work ...

Among the arguments that the Trump administration has put forward for its review of its foreign aid programs – including very large funding cuts and the dismantling of its principal international ...

South Korea’s Constitutional Court has today unanimously upheld the impeachment of President Yoon Suk-yeol and removed him from power. This marks Yoon as the shortest serving democratically elected ...

President Donald Trump has massively increased US tariffs and upended the world trading system. As of 5 April, the United States will impose an across-the-board baseline tariff of 10%, and from 9 ...

After months of speculation, Donald Trump has gone far harder with his so-called “reciprocal tariffs” than many thought was likely, given the economic damage this move will cause to the United States ...

The Albanese government has hung its hat on improving ties with Australia’s two near regions, the Pacific and Southeast Asia. And while there is clearly a hierarchy of effort, with the Pacific rightly ...

This month, member countries to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), the United Nations body responsible for regulating international shipping, will negotiate on a long-awaited plan to ...

This past week, I was invited to brief the US Congressional staffers on US counterterrorism policy. My message was simple, that after 24 years and $8 trillion spent, the US counterterrorism apparatus ...

In a world where AI is rapidly reshaping sectors from healthcare and clean energy to manufacturing and defence, it was puzzling to note the absence of new funding for AI development or digital ...