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The Trade War, Economic Decoupling and Future Chinese Strategy Towards America

On 13 June 2019, the Lowy Institute hosted the Hon Kevin Rudd for a discussion with Senior Fellow Richard McGregor on Xi Jinping’s China and the new era of strategic competition with the United States across trade, technology, and geopolitics. Below are a podcast of the event and the formal

By Kevin Rudd

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Uneasy lies the head that wears Hong Kong's rented crown

Originally published in the Sydney Morning Herald

By Ben Bland

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Encryption and citizenship-stripping legislation: Are Australia’s latest security laws necessary and proportionate?

On June 12, 2019, Lowy Institute Research Fellow Dr Rodger Shanahan was joined in conversation with the current Monitor, Dr James Renwick SC to discuss the role of the INSLM and two laws under his review: the so-called ‘encryption laws’ that allow security agencies to access encrypted

By James Renwick

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James Marape gets clear air to establish new PNG administration

Originally published in the Sydney Morning Herald

By Shane McLeod

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How Power Adapts to a Changed World

At the 2019 World Economic Forum in Davos, the Lowy Institute’s Hervé Lemahieu used the Asia Power Index to chart what might happen to the distribution of power as we move from an open and consensual world order to one that is defined more by competition and zero-sum politics

By Hervé Lemahieu

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Conservatives overseas will look at the ScoMo lesson

Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

By Michael Fullilove

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Jacinda Ardern's Paris pitch a sign of tech giants' power

Originally published in the Sydney Morning Herald

By Kelsey Munro

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We must find a new Asia focus as world order changes

Originally published in The Australian

By Michael Fullilove

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Why US-China talks should focus on technology as the greater threat, instead of trade

Originally published in South China Morning Post

By Roland Rajah

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New Caledonia’s independence referendum: Local and regional implications

As 30 years of peace agreements come to an end, stability in New Caledonia is now at risk

By Denise Fisher

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Media Release: 2019 Lowy Institute Poll – Australian Attitudes To Climate Change

In 2019, Australians rank climate change at the top of a list of ten possible threats to Australia's vital interests in the next ten years. A majority of Australian adults (64%) see climate change as ‘a critical threat’, an increase of six points from 2018 and 18 points since 2014

By Natasha Kassam

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Press Release - 2019 Lowy Institute Polling: Australian attitudes towards foreign policy issues ahead of the 2019 federal election

In an early release of select results from the Lowy Institute Poll 2019, the Liberal-National Coalition holds a clear lead over the Labor Party on five out of nine key foreign policy issues

By Natasha Kassam

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We may not be interested in the world, but the world is interested in us

Originally published in the Sydney Morning Herald

By Michael Fullilove

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Australian Values, Australia’s Interests — Foreign Policy Under A Shorten Labor Government

On Wednesday 1 May, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Senator Penny Wong gave a speech titled ‘Australian values, Australia’s interests - Foreign policy under a Shorten Labor Government’. After the address, the Lowy Institute’s Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove chaired an audience Q&

By Penny Wong

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Sri Lanka’s perfect storm of failure

Originally published in Foreign Policy

By Lydia Khalil

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Politics in Indonesia: Resilient elections, defective democracy

The pressures on Indonesian democracy are not likely to abate under a second-term Jokowi or a Prabowo presidency

By Ben Bland

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China’s Doghouse Is Smaller Than It Looks

Originally published in Bloomberg Opinion

By Richard McGregor

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Captured Islamic State fighters pose dilemma for Western countries

Originally published in The Australian

By Rodger Shanahan

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‘New’ Malaysia: Four key challenges in the near term

In the aftermath of Malaysia’s momentous regime change, the new government faces a number of challenges to implementing wholesale political reform

By James Chin

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Can outside pressure shift Beijing?

Originally published in Nikkei Asian Review

By Richard McGregor

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Marise Payne on Australia’s international cyber strategy

The Lowy Institute hosted the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator the Hon Marise Payne, for an address on Australia’s international cyber strategy

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Deal will help tame Indonesia's risks

Originally published in Australian Financial Review

By Ben Bland

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Hanoi summit: Trump walks but time is on Kim Jong Un's side

Originally published in Australian Financial Review

By Sam Roggeveen

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Jokowi must prove his doubters wrong, not appease them

Originally published in Australian Financial Review

By Ben Bland

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The supreme challenge facing Iran

Originally published in The Australian

By Rodger Shanahan

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Beijing won't allow Hong Kong to sing from a different song sheet

Originally published in Nikkei Asian Review

By Ben Bland

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East Asia’s decoupling

East Asia is no longer reliant on US or Western markets to fuel its growth, giving it more room to manage amid global trade tensions

By Roland Rajah

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2018 Australia–Papua New Guinea Emerging Leaders Dialogue Outcomes Report

The Lowy Institute hosted the sixth annual Australia–Papua New Guinea Emerging Leaders Dialogue from 4 to 6 December 2018 in Cairns, Australia

By Jonathan Pryke

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Brexit warning for Australia: Voter immigration concerns an easy fringe target

Originally published in Australian Financial Review

By Sam Roggeveen

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We need the Five Eyes spy network, but with oversight

Originally published in Sydney Morning Herald

By Richard McGregor

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The Ineffable Hulk, Trump is always one temper tantrum from disaster

Originally published in Sydney Morning Herald

By Michael Fullilove

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Economic conflict between America and China: A truce declared, the talks begin

The real issue in the US–China trade negotiation is the dramatic change in China’s economy evident over the past decade

By John Edwards

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After the Midterms: Australia, the United States and the international order

Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove reflects on the Trump administration, the effect of the midterms on US foreign policy and what this means for Australia and the world order. This speech was delivered at the Lowy Institute on 13 November 2018

By Michael Fullilove

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Curious: Canberra mirrors Moscow on Jerusalem

Originally published in Sydney Morning Herald

By Rodger Shanahan

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Europe's crisis of unrealistic expectations

Originally published in Australian Financial Review

By Hervé Lemahieu

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Power Rangers

Data reveals a major power balance shift in the Asia-Pacific, writes Lowy Institute research fellow Bonnie Bley

By Bonnie Bley

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Once we were the laughing stock of the world, but now it's worse

At first the world laughed at Australia's political instability, but more serious consequences are emerging as international summit season comes to an end. This article was originally published in Sydney Morning Herald on 3 December 2018.

By Michael Fullilove

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America vs the West

Can the liberal world order be preserved

By Kori Schake

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The G20 in a Zero-Sum World

Originally published in Columbia Journal of International Affairs on 28 November 2018.

By Roland Rajah

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2018 Lowy Institute Media Lecture – Susan Glasser

Susan Glasser, Washington columnist for The New Yorker, delivered the 2018 Media Lecture on Saturday 24 November at the 2018 Media Award Dinner at NSW Parliament House

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Jerusalem embassy move down and out of three counts

Originally published in The Australian

By Rodger Shanahan

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Beware of joining US in a cold war it can’t win

Published in The Australian on 21 November 2018

By Sam Roggeveen

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Why the US should not simply decouple from China without building new partnerships

Originally published in South China Morning Post

By Hervé Lemahieu

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Terror: time to stop politicising and start getting practical

Originally published in Sydney Morning Herald

By Lydia Khalil

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Australia versus China in the South Pacific

Originally published in Nikkei Asian Review

By Jonathan Pryke

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Australia's eight principles for dealing with Trump's America

Originally published in Australian Financial Review

By Michael Fullilove

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Tokyo is Canberra's path to Beijing

Originally published in Australian Financial Review

By Richard McGregor

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The G20 at Ten: Past, Progress and Prospects

Dr David Gruen the Deputy Secretary, Economic, at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and G20 Sherpa addressed the Lowy Institute and spoke about the global economic order and the role of the G20.

By David Gruen

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The Foreign Policy of the Next Labor Government

On 29 October the Honourable Bill Shorten MP outlined the foreign policy of the next Labor government

By Bill Shorten

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Donald Trump begins a conscious uncoupling from China

Originally published in Australian Financial Review

By Richard McGregor

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