The Lowy Interpreter
Indonesia Seeks Local Partners to Offset Beijing in South China Sea
By Huynh Tâm Sáng] Tensions with China over the South China Sea have prompted Indonesia to invite maritime se...
Op-Ed: Five Myths Contribute to Tensions in the South China Sea
[By John Quiggin] US officials regularly present China as an aggressive and expansionist military power while Chinese...
Anti-China Protests in Gwadar May Evolve Into a Port Blockade
A couple of months back, 70-year-old housewife Masi Zainab asked a charismatic local political leader, Maulana Hidayat-ur-Reh...
Trouble on the Mekong: Climate Change, Overdevelopment Hit Fisheries
[By Mark Tilly] Two reports released last month by The Mekong River Commission (MRC), an inter-governmental organization that w...
Op-Ed: Indonesia Deserves Transparency About China's Research Drones
[By Taufik Rachmat Nugraha] According to the Indonesia Ocean Justice Initiative, between 2018 and January 2021, a lar...
Op-Ed: For Europe, Renewables Would Be Better Than Nord Stream 2
[By Mateo Szlapek-Sewillo] Of the several specters haunting Europe, the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is one of the most pers...
Op-Ed: Why Australia Should Burn Illegal Fishing Boats
[By Aristyo Rizka Darmawan] Last week, the Australian Border Force released photographs of burning Indonesian fishing vess...
India's Answer to Chinese Ports in Sri Lanka
[By Dr. Chulanee Attanayake] On September 30, Adani Group, India’s largest private port operator, signed what has b...
Op-Ed: Just How Serious is China About Climate Change?
{By Elliott Zaagman] As the leaders of world’s largest carbon emitters meet in Glasgow in the coming days, it is still un...
Op-Ed: The U.S. and China Should Learn to Live With Each Other
[By Ali Wyne] As strategic tensions between the United States and China calcify so too does the conclusion that they have enter...