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A comprehensive database tracking official development finance (ODF) flows in the Pacific Islands region, the seventh edition of the Pacific Aid Map encompasses the period from 2008 to 2022, including data on more than 37,000 projects carried out by 97 development partners, totalling almost $50 billion.
Philippine elections and the politics behind it | Lowy Institute
Feb 7, 2022 · Political parties serve as candidate-centric, non-ideological alliances. While they have names that describe them as “nationalist”, “democratic”, and “liberal”, the various Philippine political parties are far from being ideological organisations.
De-dollarisation: shifting power between the US and BRICS
For decades, the United States has been considered the global hegemon. However, BRICS nations now account for more than 40 per cent of the world’s population and have an aggregated global GDP of 31.5 per cent. This surpasses the G7’s (United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom) GDP of 30.7 per cent.
Antimony: The hidden metal fuelling global competition
Sep 2, 2024 · Great power competition between the United States and China centres on technological supremacy. This extends beyond future-defining technologies such as high-end chip manufacturing, advanced AI, and quantum computing to include the supply chains underpinning these technologies, particularly critical minerals.. As the clean energy transition accelerates, critical minerals such as cobalt ...
Why China remains unlikely to invade Taiwan | Lowy Institute
Plenty of Americans — including senior military officers, academics, and politicians — think Chinese leader Xi Jinping sees war as the best option. Those making this argument typically say Xi is tired of waiting for unification to happen peacefully, sees a military window of opportunity, or has set a deadline for finishing the job. Some think China’s recent economic problems create an ...
ANALYSIS: The Battle of Kursk 2024 | Lowy Institute
Aug 8, 2024 · The Lowy Institute acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which the Institute stands, and pays respects to their elders, past and present.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: Why and why now? - Lowy Institute
Jun 22, 2023 · Meanwhile, he saw Washington as focused on its growing rivalry with China, while America’s international standing had been diminished by the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Biden administration also seemed preoccupied and weakened at home by partisan politics.
Why Russia has only now declared war on Ukraine | Lowy Institute
Apr 3, 2024 · The Kremlin spokesman’s recent comments have been widely interpreted as the first official acknowledgment from Russia that the conflict in Ukraine is a war. However, Russian President Vladimir Putin already used the term “war” on 22 December 2022 to refer to the fighting in Ukraine. On that occasion, Putin’s remark was likely a slip of the tongue.
Governor Tim Walz and Minnesota’s relations with China
China again looms large in the US presidential election campaign. Republican critics have in recent weeks honed their attacks Tim Walz, running mate of Kamala Harris, and the reported 30 trips he’s made to China dating back to a 1989 teaching stint in Foshan.
The implications of India’s newest ballistic missile submarine
India’s second Arihant-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine (SSBN), INS Arighaat, was commissioned into the Indian Navy on 29 August.The new submarine brings India one step closer to a nuclear second-strike capability while also entrenching nuclear competition in the Indo-Pacific.. SSBNs are a potent and highly specialised military asset.
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