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Ambassador Wiryono Sastrohandoyo

Wiryono Sastrohandoyo is a former senior diplomat who began his career in 1962 when he joined the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He later held the position of Director-General of Political Affairs in the Department. Ambassador Wiryono served terms as Minister Counsellor in Paris, Chief of Mission in Washington, Deputy Representative to the Indonesian Mission in New York, Ambassador to Austria and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna. Between 1996 and 1999 he was Indonesia's Ambassador to Australia.

He is the former Chief Negotiator for the Indonesian Government with the Aceh autonomy movement.

He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Jakarta.

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China and the world: public opinion and foreign policy

The Lowy Institute has just released its first China Poll, a wide-ranging survey of Chinese public opinion towards a number of important international policy issues. By what do the Chinese people feel threatened? How do they feel about foreign investment from Australia, Canada and the United States? Which country do the Chinese people regard as the best place to be educated and what do they think of Australia - is it a good place to visit, a country with attractive values or is it suspicious of China?

The 2009 Lowy Institute China Poll asked a broad sample of the Chinese population these questions and others. The Poll was partly funded with the generous assistance of the MacArthur Foundation as part of the Lowy Institute’s MacArthur Foundation Asia Security Project.

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The 2009 Lowy Institute Poll

The fifth annual Lowy Institute Poll surveys Australian public opinion on a broad range of foreign policy issues. New questions this year cover the priority given to action on climate change, public attitudes towards relations with the US and China, foreign investment, asylum seekers, how to deal with Iran and perceptions about nuclear threats.

The Poll also repeated a number of questions asked in previous years, revealing important trends in Australian public opinion over the last five years.

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