The Trump administration has announced a doubling of tariffs on India to 50 per cent, with a 21 day window for further negotiations over its trade with Russia. President Donald Trump has also ruled ...

It appears likely that India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in-person at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation leaders summit in China later this month. A visit to China would be Modi ...

Shyam Saran, a former Indian Foreign Secretary and diplomat, has held prominent roles in India's foreign policy and international relations.

North Korean defectors are again in the spotlight. Earlier this year, South Korea reported that the number of North Korean defectors nearly tripled in 2023. The number of “elite defectors”, who ...

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 ...

Across the board, the Chinese state media reported on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s visit to the country last week in a positive light. Even the Global Times, an English language Chinese newspaper ...

In the past few days, the US president issued another ultimatum to the warring parties in Ukraine, although this time, Donald Trump focussed his ire on Russia. Apparently sick of seeing Russia’s ...

Passing through Immigration and Customs at Narita Airport outside Tokyo on Sunday night was the quickest it has been for a few years. The usual winding lines of tired travellers were non-existent as I ...

Khang Vu is a visiting scholar in the Political Science Department at Boston College. He was a 2023-2024 Hans J. Morgenthau pre-doctoral fellow at the University of Notre Dame. Khang received his Ph.D ...

Richard McGregor is Senior Fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute, Australia’s premier foreign policy think tank. Richard is a former Beijing and Washington bureau chief for the Financial Times ...

Last week, Japanese media announced a proposal to transfer six of the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force’s (JMSDF) Abukuma-class destroyer escorts to the Philippine Navy (PN). Built between 1988 and ...