Today, the Indonesia-led Archipelagic and Island States Forum (AIS) has become the world’s fastest-growing climate and island-centric multilateral bloc. With some initiative, Australia could join the AIS Forum and project Canberra’s growing regional and global climate leadership through the Forum. 

India's connectivity diplomacy is making ground, as the recently announced India-Middle East Corridor (IMEC) at the G20 illustrates. Offering a chance counter China's influence through the Belt and Road Initiative, IMEC nonetheless faces several challenges, including regional instability.

Türkiye has firmly opposed any harm to civilians and innocents in Gaza and Israel. Despite keeping with his unwavering support for Palestine and maintaining a close relationship with Hamas, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan does not want the conflict to hinder the process of normalising relations with Israel. 

US corporations are having to increasingly juggle concerns of data privacy and human rights alongside profit margins and growth in their dealings with China. Disney looks to be the latest, but certainly not the last, corporation to adjust its expectations amid US-China great power competition. 

While Hamas’ 7 October attack on Israel has provided an opportunity for partisan commentators to condemn or to advocate, one Australian contribution suggestively points beyond polarisation, and beyond fixation on Gaza. Broadening our perspective may be the most useful way forward.

Despite the growth in numbers, which may require a name change, BRICS looks poised to grow in importance. How the members organise to provide public goods, however, will define it legacy. 

China has regularly published official maps since at least 2006 to “correct” what it views as “problematic maps” that it claims misrepresents its territorial borders. The August 2023 map, published on China’s Ministry of Natural Resources website, includes the entirety of the South China Sea (SCS), Taiwan, the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, and the disputed Aksai-Chin plateau.

On the 31st of January this year, Foreign Minister Penny Wong gave a speech at King’s College in London where she urged the United Kingdom to confront its colonial past. She referred to her own family’s experiences with British colonialism and acknowledged that “such stories can sometimes feel uncomfortable – for those whose stories they are, and for those who hear them.”

Do Russian people, restricted from the global internet, really trust state media? This is a question we may be able to answer with a proper understanding of the Russian concept of vranyo.

Ankara's rapprochement policy with its rivals does not mean there will be a coming together between Türkiye and Greece. Instead, the rivalry between this quarrelsome NATO couple may escalate, and a victory for Mitsotakis may be perceived as a threat in the eyes of Ankara.