Rennie Lee is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Science Research and ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course at the University of Queensland.

That Australia cannot guarantee regional security via military means should not provoke a feeling of helplessness. It can evidently defend its territory and people for a relatively low cost. Australia ...

In the past fortnight, multi-party parliamentary delegations from India and Pakistan have stopped in London as part of a world tour. Having had the opportunity to interact with both delegations, one ...

QR payments allow customers to scan a merchant’s unique QR code using their smartphones. The payment app, provided by a bank or financial technology company (fintech) and linked to the user’s account, ...

The rivers of the Kashmir region feed into the Indian subcontinent, including the Indus and its tributaries – Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej. India and Pakistan are heavily reliant on these ...

An unusual kind of tension is brewing in Northeast Asia. In a first, China deployed its Liaoning and Shandong aircraft carriers to the Pacific, generating fresh friction with Japan. The Chinese ...

This month, world leaders met to attend the 2025 UN Ocean Conference, held in France. In his speech, Tuvalu’s Prime Minister Feleti Teo called for“the development of an international treaty on sea ...

Australia has long neglected the Indian Ocean. Canberra historically largely depended upon allies, first Britain and then the United States, to secure its interests in the Indian Ocean. Yet Asia’s ...

Anthony Albanese missed out on the long-awaited face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump at the G7 meeting in Alberta and is now considering attending the NATO meeting at The Hague next week to try ...

On 15 June, Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra made a private phone call to Cambodia’s Senate President Hun Sen, a former prime minister who remains the dominant political figure in the ...

Western policymakers often discuss China as though it were already in 2025, a fully matured peer rival, operating on the same strategic clock and institutional footing as liberal democracies. But that ...

More than four years after the coup in Myanmar, ASEAN’s struggle to address the crisis has not only exposed institutional deadlock but also catalysed a decentralisation of regional diplomacy. While ...