The COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan ended in disappointment. The central task of the talks – to establish a new climate finance goal to replace the pledge of $100 billion annually from wealthy to ...

This week, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a change in Russian nuclear doctrine. The new approach permits Russia to use nuclear weapons against conventional attacks. The announcement is ...

Each year, the Lowy Institute updates is Pacific Aid Map – the most comprehensive database tracking aid and development flows to the Pacific Islands region ever assembled. In this episode of ...

The 2022 G20 Summit marked a turning point for Indonesia’s energy transition with the signing of an agreement to explore the early retirement of Cirebon-1 coal-fired power plant. The 660-megawatt ...

Food safety remains a top priority for Chinese authorities and the public. Two significant scandals in China this year have again raised concerns about the quality and safety of locally produced food.

The consequences of Donald Trump’s impending return overshadowed most reports of Xi Jinping’s likely last meeting with Joe Biden at the weekend. The change on the horizon perhaps provided the impetus ...

The most powerful country in the world has elected as its leader someone who is not only stupendously ill-qualified for the role by any intellectual or moral measure, but who is routinely described as ...

Russia’s latest strike against Ukraine represents a serious escalation of tensions between the Moscow and NATO, led by the United States. Moscow has employed an intermediate-range ballistic missile ...

The Group of Twenty (G20) met recently in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, on the heels of a seismic US presidential election that has the potential to accelerate an already rapidly changing geopolitical ...

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.

After a pandemic-induced lull in spending and new project commitments, China’s Pacific aid engagement has rebounded. With increased spending and a surge in new infrastructure commitments evident in ...