Critical minerals have become a frontline of great-power competition, with U.S. dependence on China exposing deep ...

Australia’s critical minerals push is being sold as a strategic win, but it risks doubling down on a “dumb” commodity economy ...

BYD’s Brazil factory marks a clean-tech power shift: where China builds, countries reindustrialise and plug into the future ...

The UN Security Council’s resolution 2803 (2025) dated 17 November 2025 adopting President Trump’s 20-point peace plan to end ...

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The Australian government asserts that China’s military buildup is the largest of any country in post-war history. Their threat perception is overblown. Such claims are hard to pin down since ...

China’s relationship with the International Criminal Court stands in contrast to its dealings with other international institutions. Reasons for this include a history of colonialism and the need to ...

Largely unnoticed, the Afghan Taliban have been rapidly expanding a network of Madrassas to propagate their ideology to a captive audience. This may prove to be one of the most fearsome developments ...

As China seeks to dominate the island chains in the Western Pacific, the Taiwan Crisis stands in its way. For China to take full control of these island chains, it must first seize Taiwan, the ...

Misleading entertainment visuals on TikTok are more potent than hate speech content, making misinformation and disinformation harder to identify. The effect is subtle yet powerful. Governments ...

Contrary to popular belief, a rules-based international order is not in continuity with the past, but a replacement for an international law-based order. The decay of the ideal of politically-neutral ...