The Lowy Interpreter
India Backs Away from Southeast Asia Trade Deal
[By Dr. Mustafa Izzuddin] India’s decision in the final months of last year to withdraw from negotiations for the me...
Maritime Tensions Between Indonesia and China Escalate
[By Greta Nabbs-Keller] The resurgence of tensions between Indonesia and China in the South China Sea is a development to monit...
Op-Ed: Iran Has Limited Options for Striking Back
[By Ian Parmeter] In assessing the consequences of President Donald Trump’s assassination of Qasem Soleimani, the le...
Shifting Ties Boost China's Influence in Iranian, Pakistani Ports
[By Syed Fazl-e-Haider] In the wake of escalating US-Iran tensions in the Persian Gulf, the geopolitical realities of the...
Signs of a Ceasefire in the U.S.-China Trade War
[By John Edwards] It is not yet agreed, may yet fail, and is anyway unlikely to settle matters, but the impending “phase...
Low-Lying Pacific Islands Sue Over Climate Change
[By Tim Stephens] There has been a surge in climate litigation in national courts over the past few years, especially...
Poles Apart: The Long Shadow of US-China Competition
[By Dr Nengye Liu] From trade to cyber, from the South China Sea to outer space, strategic rivalry between the United Stat...
Raising the Stakes in the Gulf’s Game of Reprisals
[By Rodger Shanahan] Last weekend’s attack on the Saudi oil facility at Abqaiq is the most dramatic escalation of the Per...
The Philippine Standoff Over China
[By Malcolm Cook] Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is scheduled to arrive in China on Wednesday for his fifth presidential...
Op-Ed: For U.S., Buying Greenland Might Make Strategic Sense
[By Donald R. Rothwell] Suggestions by the Trump administration that the United States is exploring the acquisition of Gre...