Cobalt Prices Surge as COVID-19 Recedes
Cobalt prices are surging, but is the market heading for a repeat of the false start of 2016-2018?
Erdogan’s Flip: How Turkiye and Azerbaijan Became Ukraine Allies
Western portrayals of Turkiye and Azerbaijan falling in the Russia camp amid the Ukraine war are wildly inaccurate.
Timeline: Freeze (and Thaw?) in China-Australia Relations
Chronicling the events leading up to the present low point in China-Australia relations.
Hungary: Authoritarianism by Another Name?
What Prime Minister Viktor Orbán terms ‘illiberal democracy’ is starting to look a lot like blatant authoritarianism.
Vietnam Waits for Signs of Trump’s Asia Policy
With the ‘Asia Pivot’ gone, and the TPP with it, Hanoi left to guess at what the Trump administration’s Asia Pacific policy will be.
Backgrounder: 2021 Nicaraguan Elections
Examining the slow and steady criminalization of dissent in the lead-up to Nicaragua’s 2021 election.
What a Refused Visa Tells Us about the Abbot Government’s Foreign Policy
The Geopoliticalmonitor's Murray Hunter examines how a refused visa might indicate a less principled foreign policy from Australia's new Abbott administration.
Japan-Australia Cooperation: Middle Powers Rising in the Indo-Pacific
The recently-signed Japan-Australia reciprocal access agreement signals the advent of a new era of middle power multilateral cooperation in the Indo-Pacific.
Djibouti’s Attempts to Vanquish Dubai Ports Operator Spells Trouble for Washington
If Doraleh port goes the way of Hambantota in Sri Lanka and is ceded to China for non-payment of debt, the United States sprawling Camp Lemonnier could be rendered militarily unviable.
Growing Pains for China’s Financial System
A corporate default is rarely reason to celebrate, but nor is it always a sign of impending crisis.