In a world where AI is rapidly reshaping sectors from healthcare and clean energy to manufacturing and defence, it was puzzling to note the absence of new funding for AI development or digital ...

Asked about potential cooperation with China, Donald Trump declared: “China and the United States can together solve all of the problems of the world, if you think about it.” He wants Xi Jinping to ...

Disasters of all kinds have been commonplace in Myanmar, the country reeling from one crisis after another, whether environmental or political. A brief decade of relative freedom and economic growth ...

Southeast Asia bears one of the world’s highest burdens of tobacco-related illnesses and economic losses. While eight countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have reported a decline in ...

A weekend headline from the South China Morning Post declaring “China unveils a powerful deep-sea cable-cutter that could reset the world order” caught plenty of attention and amplified anxieties ...

If you are holding out for a hero, Bonnie Tyler advises that “he’s gotta be strong and he’s gotta be fast/And he’s gotta be fresh from the fight”. The Welsh songbird first offered that counsel 42 ...

Donald Trump may have well and truly trashed most of the conventional interpretations of American exceptionalism in little more than two months in office. However, it says a lot about the enduring ...

The Mar-a-Lago Accord is an idea floated by Stephen Miran, recently appointed Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers. Such a deal, Miran claims, would address the US current account and ...

Governments worldwide are scrambling to make sense of a volatile new world where the only certainty is uncertainty. And Australia is no exception. Last week’s federal budget brought forward defence ...

Rather than setting off a cascade of countries withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, the US president may have achieved the opposite. It is astounding what Donald Trump gets away with by using a ball ...

The Houthis have proven resilient in the face of strikes. The Trump administration’s strikes this month on Yemen are not the first effort to disrupt the ongoing attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. The ...