It is unlikely that Ream Naval Base in Cambodia will be a Chinese military base or outpost such as the facility in Djibouti fully operated by the People’s Liberation Army. However, China could gain ...

Dr Tri Nuke Pudjiastuti is a Research Professor at the Research Centre for Politics, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN). Her expertise in trafficking and smuggling has informed her broader ...

Ten years ago, people smugglers abandoned more than 8,000 refugees and migrants to be stranded for weeks in the Andaman Sea. An estimated 370 people died. The Andaman Sea has long been a major route ...

The 90-day pause in the US-China trade war brought relief to global markets. But while the trade truce is good news, rare earth elements have steadily emerged as a new flashpoint. Beijing’s dominance ...

Dr Naparat Kranrattanasuit is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University. Her research focuses on human trafficking and the rights of refugees and ...

Support for Taiwan is often presented as a binary: the West either defends a fellow democracy or abandons it to authoritarianism. But the real dilemma is not moral. It is strategic. For all the ...

Yvonne Tan is a Senior Researcher in Social Policy and National Integration at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia. Her research interests include labour migration and ...

In 2023, the Global Slavery Index suggested that in Malaysia, 6.3 out of every 1,000 people were affected by modern slavery – up from 4.2 per 1,000 in 2016, ranking it above regional neighbours ...

There’s a panic button under every MP’s desk. And no, it’s not for political emergencies. During the last Australian election campaign alone there were disrupted death threats and high-profile ...

The brutal killing of two embassy staff from the Israeli mission in the heart of Washington DC is a chilling marker of the dangers in an age of lone-wolf terrorism and transnational radicalisation.

It is now just over 30 years since then Prime Minister Paul Keating declared, to some frisson in the international relations community, that “no country is more important to Australia than Indonesia”.

Last year, the Albanese government launched its Future Made in Australia policy suite – a bold, $25 billion strategy to build sovereign clean industry, reindustrialise the nation, and position ...