Development

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Editorial Board, ANU The pandemic is far from over. Some 40 per cent of the world’s population is yet to receive a single shot of a COVID-19 vaccine. More…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Ken Heydon, LSE Among the G20 goals being pursued by the Indonesian chair this year is ‘ensuring equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines’. This has become a pressing task, though…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Simon Bruns, Al Akhawayn University South Korea has been praised for its successful COVID-19 containment strategy, which has managed to keep deaths significantly below the global average. In April…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: David Hundt, Deakin University For South Korea, responding to the COVID-19 pandemic has been an opportunity to burnish its ‘national brand’. It has experienced relatively few daily infections, cumulative…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Jon Yuan Jiang Since 2019, more than 40 protests were held against ‘Chinese expansion’ in Central Asia. Yet Central Asian elites have hardly had a bad word to say….

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: V Sridhar, IIIT Bangalore India has much to gain from 5G not only due to the high speed data transfers it provides but also from the way the technology…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Editorial Board, ANU When the G20 leaders first met in November 2008, they recognised that a recovery from the global financial crisis could not be orchestrated by rich economies…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Aristyo Rizka Darmawan, University of Indonesia The waters of the Indo-Pacific are heating up, with Beijing’s increasing activities in Southeast Asia pushing the United States and its allies into…