Panda diplomacy refers to the Chinese government’s loaning of giant pandas to selected countries as goodwill ambassadors or – in Xi Jinping’s words – “envoys of friendship”. It serves two interrelated ...

New Delhi-based independent researcher and foreign affairs columnist. She is currently working as a security risk analyst with Horizon Intelligence, a Belgium-based threat intelligence firm. She was a ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced an historic treaty with Nauru President David Adeang, securing the financial future of the Pacific nation – or at least for the next five years ...

Negotiations towards a global plastic treaty adjourned in Busan last week without delivering an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution. The introduction of ambitious caps to the ...

Australia is still conducting disaster diplomacy in a reactive, myopic and piecemeal fashion, mostly bilaterally.

Such a capability has proven crucial to the success of several externally orientated violent campaigns undertaken by jihadist actors. For example, the spate of violence against Europe by ISIS in the ...

Stephen Moran was Senior Trade Analyst in the Office of National Assessments from 2010­ to 2021. Before that he held various trade policy roles in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the ...

The First Friend by Malcolm Knox is a dark and sadly relevant exploration of power, loyalty, and moral compromise in an age of creeping authoritarianism and the return of strongman politics. Set in ...

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Hannah Buckley is a Research Assistant at the Lowy Institute, contributing to the Southeast Asia Aid Map project. She is completing a Master of International Relations at UNSW.

It is unlikely that Ream Naval Base in Cambodia will be a Chinese military base or outpost such as the facility in Djibouti fully operated by the People’s Liberation Army. However, China could gain ...