Sir Frank Lowy AC founded the Lowy Institute for International Policy in 2003 and has served as its Chairman since then. He co-founded global shopping centre company Westfield in 1960 and served as ...

In November, South Africa will host the G20 Leaders’ Summit, the first to take place on African soil. It will also be the fourth consecutive host in the Global South, following meetings in Indonesia, ...

The fate of the subsea environment and the seabed are on the brink of a fundamental shift. Driven by the Trump administration’s recent sweeping changes to US national security and foreign and domestic ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto campaigned on a promise of continuity and better economic performance. Is Prabowo living up to his campaign promises or taking the country in a new direction? The ...

Shortwave antennas near Issoudun in France, a site that has operated since 1948 (Guillaume Souvant/AFP via Getty Images) War of words. As portents of a second world war became clear, American ...

There is no denying that China is aggressively branding itself as the world’s environmental champion. From the massive “Three-North Shelterbelt“ reforestation to the world’s biggest solar photovoltaic ...

Dr Milton Osborne was a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. He has been associated with Southeast Asia for more than 60 years since being posted to the Australian ...

The first 52 Chinese students to come to the United States arrived on 27 December 1978, less than two weeks after the two countries announced the establishment of diplomatic relations.By last year, ...

Sohail Akhtar is a Kashmiri-born author, academic and policy researcher now based in Melbourne. He has led research for the World Bank, United Nations and worked in government, education, and the ...

Pete Millwood teaches the history of US–China relations at the University of Melbourne. His book, Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-China Relations, ...

South Korea’s presidential by-election, triggered by the impeachment of Yoon Suk-yeol over his short-lived effort to impose martial law in December, has elevated Democratic Party figurehead Lee ...