The United States remains the most powerful country in Asia, according to the latest edition of the Lowy Institute’s Asia Power Index. But its power has fallen to the lowest level since the inception ...

It may be no more than an annual ritual: the Indian Prime Minister and the Russian President meeting each other alternately in either country. However, the current geopolitical churn creates a special ...

In November 2025, the world gathered in the Amazonian city of Belém for COP30, the UN’s annual climate summit. It was the first time in 30 years that the United States was absent from the talks. Todd ...

Last week, the Australian Critical Infrastructure Security Centre published its Third Annual Risk Review. The report said “geopolitical risk is an ongoing reality for all critical infrastructure ...

Wandering through the cavernous, white-tiled port building of Kupang, in Indonesia’s West Timor, you might momentarily think you’re in the maritime gateway to a much bigger place. But linger a little ...

As Australians know, and as their government frequently reminds them, the foundation of the nation’s security is its long-standing alliance with the United States. Australia has honoured the intent of ...

As the United Nations turns 80, the world it was built to guide hardly resembles the one it inherited in 1945. The institution was born out of exhaustion – an act of desperation after a war that ...

The last time Australia and Indonesia celebrated a security pact – the 1995 Agreement on Maintaining Security (AMS) – it ended poorly. The new Treaty of Common Security echoes that moment, but history ...

The Pacific Islands face converging transnational and geopolitical threats, yet existing intelligence exchanges are fragmented and inadequate to meet the scale of these challenges. The Lowy ...

For the past several months, Indian negotiators have been trying, albeit unsuccessfully, to finalise a trade deal with the United States. On several occasions, negotiators, including India’s commerce ...

Richard McGregor is Senior Fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute, Australia’s premier foreign policy think tank. Richard is a former Beijing and Washington bureau chief for the Financial Times ...