Imran Khan has been ousted as Pakistan’s prime minister. The abrupt end of Imran Khan’s government and the political machinations of the past month must be understood against the wider context of political instability in Pakistan.

India takes the Quad, and its role in it, very seriously. And yet, New Delhi’s position on Russia risks generating tensions within the group.

Football is undoubtedly the most popular sport in China. Politically, football in China is on much less solid ground.

Since October 2019, Lebanon has been in the throes of an economic recession, identified by the World Bank as one of the 10 worst crises since the 1850s. Lebanon now faces unprecedented food insecurity.

If COVID-19 has proved an intense adversity in Africa as elsewhere in the world, it has also proved a boon in some respects. The African digital diplomacy sphere is instructive in these respects.

The war in Ukraine reflects a clash of narratives about Russian and Ukrainian national and state identities. While the Russian regime talks of “denazifying” Ukraine, it is Russia that is the integral nationalist state now.

A strategy document released last month gave graphic insight into where dispassionate analysis by a peak Australian government agency sees the region headed. It points to a future in which the Morrison government’s hairy-chested posturing towards China does the national interest no favours.

In the UK, civil society can challenge the legality of arms-exports. A series of judicial and executive decisions leave this important power in doubt.

During his long tenure as Singapore’s prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong has stripped Singapore’s relations with China and the US of all subtlety, opting instead for courageous honesty. But Lee’s approach is likely not one his father would have approved.

Seoul’s change in political leadership is promising for the West. Australia must do more to take advantage of the opportunity.