Cuddly pandas symbolise a generous, friendly and peaceful China. Panda loan announcements, often made during state visits by Chinese leaders, receive extensive local and international media coverage.

Plans for Donald Trump's second-term inauguration are well underway, with his transition team straight to work announcing appointments. Lowy Institute Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove has ...

As years go, 2024 has been big on democratic reckoning, and the elections across the Indo-Pacific have shown how technology impacts almost every facet of the democratic process. From the cyberattacks ...

In the northern winter of 2022, as Russian armour and troops massed on Ukraine’s borders, a highly effective psychological operation was reaching a crescendo. For several months, Russian diplomats had ...

In the nearly three years since Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine of February 2022, many nations have re-examined their national security postures, defence budgets and alliances. The government ...

In April 2015, Mary Jane Veloso was moved to Nusa Kambangan, a maximum security prison island in Indonesia. The plan had been to execute her by firing squad with other death row prisoners, including ...

Bitter experience shows a “global” crisis can result from failures of domestic governance and regulatory oversight in the United States. Given the Trump family’s personal investments in crypto and the ...

For the better part of two decades, Japan’s national security policies have been framed by the ruling conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its pacifist junior coalition partner Komeito. A ...

America’s 47th president will be sworn in on 20 January 2025. Headlines have been loud about the potential impact of Donald Trump’s return to the White House given his promises to unleash tough ...

At a time when Australia is increasingly looking to Japan and South Korea for closer strategic partnerships, the political tumult that has engulfed both countries in recent weeks raises serious ...

Nardine Alnemr is a lecturer in politics and policy in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) and fellow of the Indo-Pacific Research Centre (IPRC) at Murdoch University. Nardine’s ...