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Chinese companies suing governments the world over

The Chinese-owned firm that operates the Port of Darwin isn’t happy about the federal government’s push to return it to an Australian owner. Now, the situation is escalating, with the stage set for an international legal showdown. The Albanese government has been in talks with

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India-Bangladesh weigh political fix for diplomatic rift

Diplomacy, like commerce, runs on signals. When relations sour, the choreography of repair matters almost as much as the substance. In South Asia’s second most delicate bilateral equation, between India and Bangladesh, the recent shift in tone from New Delhi suggests a

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Asia fracturing into energy security haves and have-nots

The US-Iran war is exposing a hard truth: Asia is a tiered system of energy access, where wealth determines resilience. Investors have for years treated Asia as a single growth engine. Capital flowed into the region on the assumption that, despite the clear, well-known

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With USAID gone, Indo-Pacific allies face the fallout

For more than 60 years, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was the backbone of American development diplomacy. Today, it is gone. But the most immediate consequence is not what many assume. It is not simply the loss of funding. It is the collapse of

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The internet has a Strait of Hormuz problem

The next attack on the global economy may not arrive with a missile strike or a cyberattack on a server farm. It may arrive as silence — the sudden, eerie quiet of severed fiber-optic cables resting on the floor of the Persian Gulf, cut by a vessel whose crew will claim it was

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US fast-tracks new ship-killer missile to point at China

The US Army’s fast-tracked anti-ship missile could fill a key Pacific gap, but its deterrent value will hinge on production capacity, launcher survivability and China’s continued preference for coercion over invasion in Taiwan. Naval News reports the US Army is accelerating

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Korea and Taiwan: When an AI boom lifts a nation

I have had the rare privilege of conducting on-the-ground equity research in both Korea and Taiwan at different stages of my career. They are often spoken in the same breath, partly because of their regional proximity and parallel growth trajectories, and partly also because of

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