Vietnam and Laos have what is described as a 'traditional friendship'. Don’t let the soft title fool you.

International pressure has prompted Pakistan PM to order a crack down on terrorist groups.

US President-elect Donald Trump has significantly softened his rhetoric on climate change, saying he has an 'open mind' to it.

Latest news from Melanesia including trouble in West Papua, sharks, ants, climate change and Samoa's police commissioner charged with criminal offences.

French and New Caledonian leaders have achieved some important steps in preparing for the 2018 ‘final’ referendum process.

Ahok faces a blasphemy charge after quoting a Quranic verse while campaigning in the Thousand Islands in late September.

I have been disappointed with the political opportunism I have seen since the US election.

Facebook is a global utility, and it deserves global attention.

The country is facing its worst economic and financial crisis in decades.

The Kuznetsov’s arrival symbolises Russia’s return to the waters of the Mediterranean.

It’s simply unrealistic to think businesses will favour American workers over the low labour costs delivered by imports and technology.

Long-winded declarations reflect an absence of consensus; the veneer of cooperation rather than its substance.

India's sudden ban on high-denomination bank notes causes trouble, what's wrong with randomised controlled trials, labour abuse accusations in Malaysia and more

The Obama administration’s strategic patience is unsustainable as a long-term policy option for the next US administration.

Ambasador Rich Verma’s visit is a pointer to India’s keenness to draw the US into its conflicts with China and Pakistan.

The 2001 attacks showed how much easier it is for a President to generate bi-partisan support to wage war than it is to create a consensus on universal health care.

The most immediate challenge facing Australian officials is determining how likely Trump is to start a trade war with China.

The Afghan government has successfully forged a peace deal with one rebel group but any truce with Taliban seems remote.

Rebuilding public trust, pro-IS groups in Indonesia

German aid to African states, integrating immigrants, human trafficking and more.

US institutions are wholly unprepared to deal with a candidate they have never envisioned.

Any shift to renewables worldwide will require considerable government intervention.

Trump’s election victory has turned regional trade negotiations upside-down, presenting US officials at APEC with an exquisite dilemma.

Trump’s foreign policy is not a threat to America’s place in the world, but it might be a threat to the current establishment.

Why we might be seeing the end of Labor-Coalition consensus on ANZUS.

We need to break out of our government buildings, our embassies, our ivory towers, and engage with people.

The New Zealand earthquake, Australia/US resettlement deal, the fearful prospect of a climate change sceptic in the White House, PNG's grim budget and more

Duke University Professor and one time White House adviser Peter Feaver describes the 'full lobotomy' the US undergoes during the transfer of executive power.

Under Trump we're likely to see a recalibrated US offshore balancing in Asia that won't mean either careless provocation of China or a total US drawdown.

We will need to engage more with Washington, not less, in order to try to influence the course of US foreign policy

Even those who previously supported the government are tiring of the CPP.

Denying Trump’s realist credentials appears to stem from some weird insecurity

Syria doesn’t have a functioning central government that could take back control of Raqqa after the defeat of ISIS.

The one upside of Trump and his isolationist tendencies could be that at long last Europe will be prompted to do more for the continent’s security.

Does the AIC provide a sufficiently independent source of intelligence, or are we still largely reliant on our allies?

Australia, like many other countries, now faces some big questions about how to respond to the election of President Trump. Here are three of them.

Like much of the world, Germans watched the election of Donald Trump with surprise and dismay.

Every day we seem to learn that Park’s longtime friend, Choi Soon-sil, the daughter of a religious cult leader, has yet another tentacle wrapped around the government.

Climate talks, cigarettes the big killer in poorer nations, Africans keen on china and more

When elections or referenda are decided by the emergence of those who do not habitually vote, many of the assumptions of the median voter theory go out of the window.

What little the two men share is a perception of the nature of the West’s present moment, as well as of its origins.

Based on the little Trump revealed during his campaign, no one in the Syrian opposition will be pleased with the US election result.

What Trump means for the Iran nuclear deal, globalisation, India, NATO, domestic US institutions and more.

In bars and on the street you overhear snatches of conversation about ‘the list’ that’s been circulated by the Trump transition team, which presumably itemises a fair few of the 3000 jobs up for grabs.

In depicting American democracy as chaotic and dysfunctional, the state media has sought to bolster its narrative of domestic stability.

As Trump himself has conceded, it would be hard to change or walk away from on a deal that has been approved in a Security Council resolution.

'Blue Feed, Red Feed', the reaction in China, Canadian and New Zealand soft power, and more.

A lot will go wrong over the coming months and years, as America’s role in the world, including and perhaps especially in our region, swerves off the rails.

The reason Trump did so well is not because of racism, xenophobia or ‘the basket of deplorables’. It’s because Obama’s presidency (and Bush’s before him) has been a total failure.