Nov 10, 2023 14:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views
For the past month, the worlds attention has reeled at the violence in Israel and Gaza. Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine has ground on, day by day, metre by metre. Fierce fighting has continued in the north-eastern Donetsk...
Nov 10, 2023 14:37 pm UTC| Politics
A new film series produced in China, When Marx met Confucius, was viewed more than 8 million times in the first two weeks after it was released online in October. But this is not another blockbuster drama of the sort China...
Both the US and Australia are adamant the Pacific "matters". But only one is really moving the dial
Nov 07, 2023 09:09 am UTC| Insights & Views
Just before the second summit between the US and the Pacific Islands Forum at the White House in September, the US hosts took Pacific leaders to an American football game. One, however, was conspicuously absent: Solomon...
Nov 07, 2023 09:05 am UTC| Politics
More than 20 months into the war in Ukraine and over five months into Ukraines latest counteroffensive, the situation on the front is bleak and no breakthrough imminent, the countrys commander-in-chief admitted in a recent...
Nov 07, 2023 09:05 am UTC| Insights & Views
Shortly after the Hamas massacre in Israel on October 7, people I know and respect were posting Palestinian solidarity notices on their social media feeds. I am supportive of the rights of the Palestinian people and am...
How are global powers engaging with the Pacific?
Nov 07, 2023 08:55 am UTC| Insights & Views
After years of neglect, theres a reason why Pacific leaders now describe the Pacific Islands geopolitical landscape as crowded and complex. Many democratic powers have recently refocused their attention on the region,...
Grain as a weapon: Russia-Ukraine war reveals how capitalism fuels global hunger
Nov 06, 2023 03:35 am UTC| Politics
International fears about the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on an existing global food crisis appear to have faded in the seven months since Russia pulled out of a deal that allowed Ukraine to export grain to world...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight