The Lowy Interpreter
Technology is Making the Pacific's Drug Highway Harder to Detect
In the global narcotics trade, transnational criminal networks are consolidating their hold on the Pacific drug highway. Technolog...
China is Remaking the South China Sea With a Return to Island-Building
[By Lowell Bautista] After nearly a decade of relative pause, China has resumed large-scale island-building in the South China Sea...
Indonesia Discovered a Subsea Spy Drone. Is it Legally a Ship?
[By Dita Liliansa] Indonesian fishers found a torpedo-like object in the waters north of Gili Trawangan, Lombok, on April 6. The e...
Iran Crisis Puts China's UN Diplomacy to the Test
[By Courtney J. Fung and Andrea Ghiselli] China and Russia this week vetoed a UN Security Council Resolution on the Strait of Horm...
Cambodia's Blue Economy Problem
[By Nory Ly] Cambodia isn’t typically thought of as a coastal nation. But its shoreline of 435?kilometers alongside the Gulf of Th...
Vietnam is Winning the Trade Wars
[By Roland Rajah] Vietnam has again emerged as the apparent winner of Donald Trump’s trade wars, as was the case during his first...
The Lonely Island at the Center of Taiwan Contingency Planning
[By Frances Mangosing] From where I stood, at a stunning lookout on Mavulis Island’s highest hill, gleaming turquoise waters stret...
China's Victory Day Parade: A Tale of Two Audiences
The twin messages from the spectacle that unfolded in Tiananmen Square on September 3 could not be missed. China’s military parade...
Op-Ed: Worried About China's Rise? Beijing's Ambitions are Mostly Regional
[By Sam Roggeveen] Australia’s former prime minister Tony Abbott wrote in the Wall Street Journal recently that “a world dominated...
Fear, Pride or Miscalculation Could Start a War in the Pacific
[By Henry Yep] Thucydides famously observed that nations go to war for reasons of fear, honor, and interest. In today’s Indo-Pacif...