US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a 25 per cent tariff on Indian imports, citing high trade barriers and India’s continued defence and energy ties with Russia, marks a significant departure ...

North Korean defectors are again in the spotlight. Earlier this year, South Korea reported that the number of North Korean defectors nearly tripled in 2023. The number of “elite defectors”, who ...

The AI-generated deepfake is becoming a familiar feature of political debates, but also a potential national security threat, as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently discovered. An imitation of ...

In recent weeks, a flurry of reports has predicted the imminent downfall of China’s President Xi Jinping. Similar rumours have surfaced repeatedly over his 13-year rule – and each time have proven ...

Post-election, Ishiba Shigeru continues to appear on television screens as the incumbent Prime Minister of Japan. The sheen of perspiration on his brow is not just the heat of this extraordinarily hot ...

Khang Vu is a visiting scholar in the Political Science Department at Boston College. He was a 2023-2024 Hans J. Morgenthau pre-doctoral fellow at the University of Notre Dame. Khang received his Ph.D ...

The Dalai Lama’s statement this month that his successor would be selected by the traditional process of reincarnation has heartened the millions of followers around the world celebrating his 90th ...

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 ...