The fate of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the premier aid organisation in the US government, hangs in the balance. But it is not Donald Trump alone that can decide its fate, and ...

Three years ago, Russian forces moved across the Ukrainian northern, eastern and southern frontiers, as well as in a coordinated series of missile and air assault actions, in the hope of a short, ...

In February 2024, New Zealand’s national government explored an interest in joining AUKUS Pillar II, the strand of the Australia–UK–US security partnership responsible for the sharing of advanced ...

Over the past months, I’ve had the opportunity to share and exchange ideas with European politicians, analysts and intellectuals. What struck me was not just the familiar sense of concern, but a ...

The US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement last month under President Donald Trump has eroded global trust in multilateral climate commitments. A recent statement by an Indonesian climate envoy ...

US President Donald Trump has claimed Australia broke a 2018 verbal agreement on restraining Australian aluminium exports to America. That deal, successfully negotiated by the Turnbull government, had ...

The latest tariff news coming from the Trump administration is that they will calculate all support given to a country’s domestic firms as anti-competitive subsidies and all taxes imposed on imports ...

Last week, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from the UN Human Rights Council, cutting funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian ...

Semiconductors have become a critical factor in determining the future economic edge, as innovation and the growing demand for artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly rely on more advanced chips.

International aid efforts are in chaos as the Trump administration moves to brazenly dismantle the United States’ foreign aid program and reshape whatever is left in its own image. America’s foreign ...

The post-pandemic period in most economies has been characterised by skills shortages and budgetary pressure on government entitlement programs. These are consequences of demographic changes that, ...