Written by Liam Moore
While alarmist reports of massive numbers of people potentially fleeing across borders because of climate change are incorrect and misunderstand the dynamics of migration, mobility — both within and between states — is a reality in the Pacific.
Read MoreWritten by Dr Oliver Scanlan
Taiwan has always sought ways to expand its geopolitical influence; expanding its ‘international space’ is a way of mitigating the risks of Chinese coercion. If establishing an SWF would serve this end, then a much larger development bank would be even more effective.
Read MoreWritten by James Bowen
Australia’s enthusiastic embrace of its new US partnership should inform Washington’s green industrial outreach elsewhere in the world.
Read MoreWritten by Dr Kei Koga and Dr Karthik Nachiappan
Rather than focusing on divergences between Japan and India or between the G7 and the G20, the areas of convergence (such as energy and food security, inflation, and climate) should be turned into functional linkages.
Read MoreWritten by James Bowen
The timing is currently ideal for democracies to accelerate clean energy cooperation and ensure more benign future relations among themselves and the wider world.
Read MoreWritten by Florentine Koppenborg
There is a striking disconnect between Japan’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets on the one hand and the energy strategy adopted to achieve them. An important step would be to reduce Japan’s reliance on coal, the single biggest cause of climate change.
Read MoreWritten by Artyom Lukin
In a nutshell, Russia could become a giant military contractor — a twenty-first-century condottiero state, and a nuclear-armed one at that. A broke but still militarily strong and audacious country that does the bidding of a rich superpower — for remuneration.
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