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The 2025 midterm election is primed to be a proxy war between the Marcos and Duterte clans, and a prelude to the 2028 presidential race. Subscribe to The Informer for monthly expert analysis, and to ...

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Roland Rajah is Lead Economist and Director of the Indo-Pacific Development Centre at the Lowy Institute, focusing on economic development challenges across Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and ...

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In December 2025, the Australian government announced “the biggest reform to the defence organisation in 50 years”. It relates to centralising arrangements for capability development (deciding what ...

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Lynne O’Donnell is an Australian writer and journalist. She spent more than a decade in China, for newspapers, magazines and wire services. She covered the post 9/11 wars for international news ...

Materiel flows the other way, too. Myanmar’s state arms factories are reported to have shipped 120-millimetre mortar rounds and other munitions to Russia, which is consistent with a pattern now well ...