This week, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a change in Russian nuclear doctrine. The new approach permits Russia to use nuclear weapons against conventional attacks. The announcement is ...

Food safety remains a top priority for Chinese authorities and the public. Two significant scandals in China this year have again raised concerns about the quality and safety of locally produced food.

Khalifa Akbar is an Analyst at CPI, based in Jakarta, where he provides technical assistance, project management, and strategic stakeholder coordination for government initiatives. His expertise lies ...

Russia’s latest strike against Ukraine represents a serious escalation of tensions between the Moscow and NATO, led by the United States. Moscow has employed an intermediate-range ballistic missile ...

The most powerful country in the world has elected as its leader someone who is not only stupendously ill-qualified for the role by any intellectual or moral measure, but who is routinely described as ...

Break out the Tooheys and orange slices. With the first ball today of the Australia-India test series in Perth, Australia’s summer of cricket has officially started. And with it, another stride ...

Susannah Patton is Director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute and the Project Lead for the Asia Power Index, the Institute’s annual data-driven assessment that maps the changing ...

A month after the first report on North Korean troops being deployed to Russia, the United States and South Korea have confirmed that these troops have engaged in combat against Ukraine in Russia’s ...

Dr Abdul Rahman Yaacob is a Research Fellow in the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute. His research interests include Southeast Asia’s defence and security issues and the region’s relations ...

China has regained its place as the second-largest bilateral donor to Pacific Island countries, narrowly edging out the United States, the 2024 edition of the Lowy Institute’s Pacific Aid Map reveals.

Within minutes of the announcement of Donald Trump’s second presidential victory, debates on European defence – which are as old as the European project itself – reemerged as European leaders and ...