Around 3:30 in the afternoon, just 25 kilometres from Lahore, a restless crowd gathers at the Wagah–Attari border, where two rival nations – India and Pakistan – meet. Pakistanis pass through layers ...

There is a certain attractiveness to arguments that President Donald Trump’s blowing up of transatlantic relations will catalyse a rapprochement between Europe and China. At a time when Europe is ...

Housing will be a central issue of Australia’s forthcoming election. The cost and scarcity of it is a national emergency. While younger voters may force politicians to think about it more clearly when ...

The Gate of Grief may be in for more suffering. Just when the Egyptian government was hoping traffic through the Suez Canal might return to normal after 15 months of conflict, the waterway is ...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in January that a Japanese national had pleaded guilty to the attempted trafficking of nuclear materials, including uranium, thorium and plutonium, from ...

For all his bravado and rhetoric against the International Criminal Court, no other statement from the Philippines’ former president Rodrigo Duterte betrays as much meaning as when he exclaimed in ...

It is estimated that there are 3,800 shipwrecks scattered across the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Most date from the Second World War. However, shipwrecks are not an issue consigned to the past. In the ...

Since his return to office less than two months ago, President Donald Trump has trashed America’s reputation among liberal democratic allies, including Australia. He has sided with Vladimir Putin’s ...

Singapore’s defence minister last week announced that two new submarines would be acquired from Germany in addition to the four it currently operates. The acquisition of the two additional Type-218 ...

The maritime relationship between Australia and India has developed considerably over recent years, but it has yet to reach its full potential. As both countries face mounting challenges in the ...

When I joined the defence department in early 2019, a senior military officer cautioned: “You will soon learn that everyone has an opinion about the tank.” Indeed, that realisation dawned quickly. In ...

Defence analyst Marcus Hellyer talks with the Lowy Institute’s Sam Roggeveen about the unprecedented appearance of Chinese warships off Australia’s east coast. What message was Beijing sending? How ...