WHO’s budget was already spread thin, and its mandate keeps growing, with budget estimates for 2026-27 already 9% higher than the current biennium. But the loss of US funding – particularly its ...

Senior US official statements more recently frame it as Xi seizing on 2027, the 100th anniversary of the PLA’s founding, to complete the material preparation required to make major combat operations ...

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On 1 March, New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rt Hon Winston Peters, delivered an address at the Lowy Institute. New Zealand’s coalition government was formed with ...

The bureaucratic hurdles to reshaping the bureaucracy Trump’s 2020 order provided 210 days for agencies to finalise lists of “policy-determining, policy-making or policy-advocating” bureaucrats who ...

Meta has vast global reach, with more 3 billion users on Facebook alone, most of whom are in India and all of whom use at least one Meta product daily. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has conceded that the ...

The surface vessels are potent. Between them, the Renhai and Jiangkai II possess 152 vertical launch system (VLS) missile cells. Most of the missiles in these cells would be dedicated to hitting enemy ...

The media typically only has enough space to focus on one big story at a time. Trump’s tariffs are dominating now. Last week it was “Signal-gate”, after a journalist was added to a White House-led ...

An accurate understanding of the balance of power in Asia is critical to the formulation of sound U.S. strategy on China. But none of these prevailing narratives get things quite right. Asia today is ...

The new strategy contains three foundational ideas. The first is that the security environment in the Indo-Pacific, and globally, is changing rapidly and in ways that are not favourable to Australia’s ...

Lai won the election and was inaugurated last month. Still, this came after countless fabricated or exaggerated rumours, articles, and pictures were disseminated through social media and emails to ...