Sweden also has official minority languages such as Finnish and Sámi, which are prominent in certain geographic areas. These ...

South Korea must be careful not to politicise high-level defections from the North. By politicising these defections in a democracy-versus-autocracy binary, the Yoon administration is exaggerating the ...

In the past 24 hours, nearly 3000 pagers carried by members of the terrorist group Hezbollah exploded across Lebanon. This audacious and imaginative attack on Hezbollah killed at least nine people and ...

Dmitri Alperovitch is the author of World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century. In this Lowy Institute Conversation, he talks with Sam Roggeveen about China’s ...

There is a somewhat careworn characterisation of modern Indonesia as a country that keeps on changing in order to remain the same, with the rider that the more it changes the more it becomes familiar.

Quad countries are right. The region does not want a China-centred order. Yet, the Quad’s language and that of its member countries – promoting a “free and open Indo-Pacific” – does not resonate with ...

The recent release of Zero Day, a Taiwanese TV show aimed at alerting viewers to the threat of blockade and invasion by the armed forces of the People Republic of China (PRC), signals a notable change ...

New York City is gearing up for the next United Nations General Assembly, but the gathered diplomats wandering the halls of UN headquarters ahead of the leaders arriving next week are showing little ...

Debates about the balance of power in Asia typically rely on one of three views. Some analysts believe, fatalistically, that China has become an unassailably dominant force in the region. Others place ...