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John Edwards is a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute and an Adjunct Professor with the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy at Curtin University. Confronted by US-China conflict, decaying ...

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The MDBs now provide close to half of all development support to Southeast Asian countries. However, the stabilising role of these banks is threatened by shareholder dynamics and decreased donor ...

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Chinese construction firms are active in the Pacific not only through Chinese-financed projects but also as contractors on projects financed by MDBs. As a result, they play a dominant and highly ...

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Official development finance to Southeast Asia declined in 2024, falling to its lowest level since 2015. Cuts to bilateral aid have been the predominant driver of the fall In 2024, total official ...

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Troy Bramston is a senior writer at The Australian and author of the new biography Gough Whitlam: The Vista of the New — the first comprehensive biography of Australia's 21st prime minister since his ...

An assessment of the size and shape of the PLA's growing capabilities in the Indo-Pacific. Special-operation soldiers aboard the missile frigate Yueyang, a Type 054A (Jiangkai-II class) multi-role ...