The question is whether Republicans will find the political will to act on what the media expose re Trump, members of his administration, and Russia.

McCully seemed to understand how far the US relationship could be taken without serious questions being raised about New Zealand’s foreign policy independence.

Macron's victory, what the 2017 budget means for aid, defence and DFAT, Hizbut Tahrir and more.

Well-resourced journalism is undoubtedly necessary to inform the public about domestic issues, but are foreign correspondents equally necessary?

A third party in Myanmar would reduce the odds of a resurgent military in the post-Aung San Suu Kyi era.

An unclear policy framework, resistance to community housing expansion, and refugees being unsupported and unable to work continue to impede progress.

Authoritative news, delivered to mobile phones, could be a stabilising influence in an era characterised by destabilising external forces.

We need to think about Syrian women not only as victims of violence but also as as significant partners in the quest to bring about a resolution to conflict.

Migration policy and the UK election, the potential cost of modern visa regimes, and Australian budget analysis.

Shen Zhihua’s remarks and the response on Weibo are just one aspect of a broader discussion over China’s posture towards the Korean Peninsula.

Pakistan’s economic prospects are clouded by the precarious future of its most critical asset - its young people.

The Australian Budget has been released and foreign aid spending has been cut again, but funding for Papua New Guinea and the Pacific remains largely unchanged.

Two back-to-back decisions have left Indonesia more religiously polarised than ever. One was politically inept, the second deeply unjust. Both may come back to haunt the Jokowi government.

There’s not much joy in the 2017 budget for Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, for Australia’s international engagement, or for DFAT’s long-suffering staff.

It's clear that public support isn’t enough for a government that does not view aid as an election issue.

‘Whoever is uprooted themselves,’ wrote Simone Weil, ‘uproots others.’ France will not be a happier country five years from now if the only legacy of a Macron presidency is further uprooting.

In 1997 blame for the Asian crisis was sheeted home to incompetent and often-corrupt leadership. This book gives a different and more accurate explanation.

Less than a quarter of those surveyed thought that the US-China relations would be friendly, cooperative or cordial in the next 12 months

The stakes are so high for the London Conference this week that we dare not fail.

One of the significant growth areas in the Commonwealth sector over the years since 9/11 has been the disproportionate increase in the number of highly-paid senior managers.

Given Macron’s lack of experience, French officials who know New Caledonia will need to continue to mediate this final phase of the Noumea Accord.

Sorting truth from propaganda in a war as complex as the Syrian conflict sometimes seems like an impossible task.

On the one hand any agreement that brings relief to Syria's civilians should be supported. But the lack of trust between sides has not disappeared.

Only regulatory certainty will ensure that Indonesia's resources are ‘used for the greatest possible prosperity of the people’.

Renzi has assured party loyalists that after his primary win, PD will return to first place in the polls by the end of May.

In recent years the amount of Australian aid has continued to fall down the world's rankings.

Although the experts who are downplaying the commercial significance of the C919 are not wrong, perhaps their frame of reference is too narrow.

Blank reiterates the popular, but implausible, claim that Xi's determination to be strongest ruler in China since Mao is influenced by Putin.

We will need more than the warm and cordial summit on board USS Intrepid to address the creeping problem in the alliance.

Is this the end of US primacy? How should we discuss the 'threat' posed by terrorism? And what's going on in South Korea politics?

There's momentum in many parts of the rugby league relationship between Australia and PNG – but more can be done.

This week's include China's mission to build its own Wikipedia, Thailand's bid to put a lid on government criticism and more on China's diplomatic stunt in Perth.

The intensifying contest for the internet economy raises the prospect of US and Chinese tech titans carving the world into digital spheres of influence.

Trump's coziness with Duterte, and sympathetic words for other strongmen around the world, sends a worrying message to a region already moving in an illiberal direction.

Macron's future will be determined not only by his win, but by his margin of victory.

The view of Australian ministers in the 1960s and leading up to independence in 1975 was that PNG was doomed to fragment – and quite rapidly.

European and Australian approaches to border control, 'Refuge', trends in US H-1B visas and more.

China’s online platforms are now distinct from their US-designed counterparts and in some respects more advanced.

This week's column examines some different views on global supply chains in the age of robotics, new figures on Chinese investment in Australia, and some unusual criticism of One Belt One Road from China's elite.

The primary right-wing candidate in next week's election is now calling himself the ‘Donald Trump of Korea'.

If the media continues cutting expertise, resources and reporters, then we need to face down a future of getting scooped. On our home turf. By Zimbabwe.

This week's links include constitutional change in Samoa, the politics of tuna fishing and Fiji's plea to Trump on climate change.

Asia's leaders know to take the bluster of Trump's initial policy statements with a heaping of salt and await more nuanced follow-up from his senior staff.

President Trump’s first phone contact with three Southeast Asian leaders was to gain their diplomatic support for a US concern in Northeast Asia.

Yemen has been rather prominent in the Trump Administration's foreign policy agenda.

The trap is to mistakenly conflate the threat of death from terrorism with the threat from terrorism.

Responding to North Korea’s threats is the perfect opportunity to start a new chapter in the US-Japan-Australia security relationship.

It would be difficult to imagine Turnbull arriving in New York with nothing to offer Trump.