Diplomacy & International Relations

Freeport’s Papua mine deal buys time

(Bhima Yudhistira Adhinegara, Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat - Lowy The Interpreter) Indonesia and the US mining giant Freeport-McMoRan have struck an agreement extending the operating...

Revelations of Chinese nuclear tests mark start of a new era

(Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan - ASPI The Strategist) As major powers renew their focus on nuclear testing, the world may be entering a new nuclear...

Australian innovation is needed to break China’s grip on critical minerals

(Robert Monterosso - ASPI The Strategist) No single country—regardless of its wealth or will—has the combination of mineral reserves, scale, and low-cost labour and...

China may yet persuade Southeast Asia to support new maritime order

(Aristyo Darmawan - ASPI The Strategist) Step by step, China is creating a Southeast Asian maritime order under its leadership. It has become a...

How Modi ‘broke down walls’ between India, Israel – at Palestine’s expense

(Yashraj Sharma - Al Jazeera) As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi emerged from his plane at Ben Gurion airport outside Tel Aviv on July...

Hong Kong court rejects appeal in landmark subversion case

(Al Jazeera/AFP/AP) The Hong Kong Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by jailed democracy campaigners in a high-profile subversion case brought under the...

EU diplomats to meet Board of Peace director over Gaza’s future

(Al Arabiya/Associated Press) The European Union’s top diplomats are set to meet Monday with the director of the Board of Peace in Brussels after...

Saudi Arabia calls on Iraq to respect Kuwait’s sovereignty

(Al Arabiya) Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry said on Monday it was following up with “high interest and concern” on the maritime coordinates and map...

Oman confirms US-Iran talks in Geneva on Thursday

(Al Arabiya) Negotiators from Iran and the United States will meet again in Geneva on Thursday, the foreign minister of regional mediator Oman confirmed....

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