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John Edwards is a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute and an Adjunct Professor with the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy at Curtin University. Confronted by US-China conflict, decaying ...

The MDBs now provide close to half of all development support to Southeast Asian countries. However, the stabilising role of these banks is threatened by shareholder dynamics and decreased donor ...

Official development finance to Southeast Asia declined in 2024, falling to its lowest level since 2015. Cuts to bilateral aid have been the predominant driver of the fall In 2024, total official ...

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Five years after the Five-Point-Consensus, Naypyidaw’s defiance has pushed ASEAN to redraw its own benchmarks for progress. Subscribe to The Informer for monthly expert analysis, and to Events for ...

The most comprehensive regional aid dataset of its kind, tracking $60 billion in aid and development finance across 50,000 projects from 2008-2024.

Chinese construction firms are active in the Pacific not only through Chinese-financed projects but also as contractors on projects financed by MDBs. As a result, they play a dominant and highly ...

Australians register historic levels of distrust and unease in 2026 Charles Lyons-Jones ...

China has neither acknowledged nor criticised the North Korean troop presence in Russia because it plays to China’s advantage. China also benefits from the United States being distracted by the war in ...