Alex's other research interests include Australia's diplomacy and diplomatic infrastructure, consular affairs, and public diplomacy. As well as six annual Lowy Institute Polls, Alex authored or ...

Bill Bishop an entrepreneur and former media executive with more than a decade’s experience living in and working in the PRC. He writes the Sinocism Newsletter, a daily publication about China, that ...

The dispute flared up most recently between 2008 and 2011, when Cambodia applied to list the temple on the UNESCO World Heritage register. This poured fuel on the flames of anti-government protests in ...

But the relative stability of the camps may now be drawing to an end. The last couple of years has seen an uptick in Rohingya refugee flows out of Bangladesh, and the number is expected to increase ...

More than four years after the coup in Myanmar, ASEAN’s struggle to address the crisis has not only exposed institutional deadlock but also catalysed a decentralisation of regional diplomacy. While ...

In 2017, Trump did not expect to win and was not ready to govern when he beat Hillary Clinton in the election. As a newly elected leader with no experience in government, personal relationships and ...

But compression is not convergence. Despite technological advances, China is still scaling. Its middle class is still forming. Its financial system remains closely managed. And its industrial strategy ...

In the past fortnight, multi-party parliamentary delegations from India and Pakistan have stopped in London as part of a world tour. Having had the opportunity to interact with both delegations, one ...

Recent events demonstrate this dynamic perfectly. China's deployment this month of both its aircraft carriers in major regional exercises offers a textbook case of identical military activities ...

An overwhelming majority of Australians (81%) disagree with Trump’s tariff policies, according to the latest Lowy Institute Poll. But despite the media infatuation with Australia “getting a better ...

The cancelled meeting between Prime Minister Albanese and US President Donald Trump at the G7 summit has been interpreted by some as a diplomatic slight. That reading suggests more about our tendency ...

As demand surges and China dominates supply chains, the Quad grouping of Australia, India, Japan and the United States has sought over recent years to mount a credible counterweight. But with Donald ...