Author: Thomas Wilkins, University of Sydney Recent comments made by Australian officials about Taiwan over the past few weeks are less statecraft and more reminiscent of a fictional account of the leadup to a Third World War. During an ANZAC…
A recent report documented up to 6,000 foreign fishing vessels that disabled their public tracking devices for more than 24 hours along the border of Argentina’s national waters, sounding the alarm that they could be illegally fishing in the country’s…
Author: Gary Clyde Hufbauer, PIIE US President Joe Biden’s next big legislative push is an infrastructure bill that will top US$2 trillion. The President has broadly defined ‘infrastructure’ to include schools, housing for the elderly and much else besides the…
China is making Australia rich as record-breaking iron ore prices lift revenues for both miners and the Australian government, despite a long-standing bilateral political conflict, but Australia is unlikely to enjoy another decade-long mining “boom”, according to analysts and economists.Canberra,…
Author: Dewi Fortuna Anwar, P2P-LIPI Southeast Asians are predisposed to welcome the Biden presidency after four years of tumultuous US foreign policy under Donald Trump. There is a general belief that President Biden’s foreign policy will be similar to that…
FREETOWN, April 7 (Xinhua) — A total of 32,711 people in Sierra Leone have received their first shots of COVID-19 vaccines, the country’s health ministry said Wednesday. People who have received the first doses can access their second ones at…
Author: Choong Yong Ahn, Chung-Ang University Chinese President Xi Jinping made global headlines at the APEC summit on 20 November 2020 by announcing that China was considering joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), which came into…
Authors: Wei Li, Sydney University and Lei Zhang, Yanzhou Coal Mining Ltd When President Xi Jinping committed China to achieving carbon neutrality by 2060 at the UN General Assembly, this was good news for many, including electric vehicle manufacturers and…
Chinese tech giant Huawei has conceded that U.S. sanctions have hurt its smartphone business after posting revenue declines in overseas markets on March 31. Huawei was put on an export blacklist by then-U.S. President Donald Trump in 2019 and later…
Author: Fredrik Fällman, University of Gothenburg 2020 ended on a sad note for China–Vatican relations. News emerged on 30 December that two nuns from the unofficial Vatican office in Hong Kong were detained for three weeks in Hebei in May…