Foreign Affairs Minister Sugiono stated that Indonesia will remain within the multilateral system while striving to promote ...

Free trade seems to have few supporters these days. Though actual trade volumes are recovering from the post-crisis recession and drop in commodity prices, “globalization” has become increasingly ...

Donald Trump's policy of imposing tariffs could lead to more protectionism and slower growth in the global economy as well as more inflation, economists say. Yet, the global development financing ...

On Jan. 7, Indonesia officially became a full member of BRICS. With the addition of the world’s fourth-most-populous country and eighth-largest economy by purchasing power, the bloc now encompasses ...

In 2023, according to the Global Humanitarian Overview, aid organizations faced a $37 billion funding shortfall to help crisis-affected communities. Yet in that year, the World Bank’s International ...

Today the world is on a knife edge - war and conflict are piercing the heart of our multilateral system and our global confidence. Russia’s war against Ukraine, the war in Gaza and the crisis in the ...

This week I am cheating—producing a column written by someone else. There are two reasons for that. I have been out of town for a conference, making it hard to find time to write, and the fact sheet I ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders’ meeting on the 31st, “Let us together safeguard the multilateral trade system and practice true ...

Trump is no friend to China. From derogatory rhetoric about the “China virus” during the COVID-19 pandemic to recent trade tariff threats, the 45th and 47th president of the United States has long ...