Washington appears to be a constant battlefield between the Trump administration and Democrats over every single issue. But below the surface, US politicians often take bipartisan approaches to important issues—a fact that gets lost in …
Japan’s Official Security Assistance (OSA) framework, established in 2022, is emerging as one of the most innovative military diplomacy frameworks to engage with maritime South Asia. An extension of the country’s Indo-Pacific strategy, it focuses …
Six months ago, the Trump administration paused almost all foreign assistance. As more than US$60 billion of programs suddenly stopped, we predicted that people would die, the world would become less fair and US soft …
Foreign aid is being slashed across the Global North, nowhere more so than in the United States. Within his first month back in the White House, President Donald Trump dismantled the US Agency for International …
There are smarter and more effective ways to streamline and re-strategise US foreign aid. The Trump administration is not the first Western government to envision a stronger, safer, and more prosperous country by integrating foreign aid with …




