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Best decision-making needed as Fortress Australia rejoins the world

The central challenge is striking the right balance between negative and positive globalisation. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

By Ben Scott

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"Building a global network of liberty" - Address by the Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP

On Friday 21 January 2022, the Lowy Institute hosted the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs of the United Kingdom, the Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP. She was joined by Australia's Foreign Minister, Senator the Hon Marise Payne and Lowy Institute Executive Director

By Michael Fullilove

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Winter Games harden China’s global freeze

The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games were China’s coming out party as a global power. The 2022 Games tell a very different story. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

By Natasha Kassam

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Can China win back global opinion before the Winter Olympics? Does it even want to?

Originally published in The Conversation

By Jennifer Hsu

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Don’t let the China hawks frighten you

China will become more powerful -- but any hostile reach towards Australia will always be limited by technology and regional politics. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

By Sam Roggeveen

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Settling in for long, fruitful innings with new partner India

Originally published in The Australian

By Michael Fullilove

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Australia can learn from Tokyo's smarter approach to China

Japan has played its Beijing cards more intelligently than Canberra. Originally published in Nikkei Asia

By Richard McGregor

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Australia, India and the Indo-Pacific: The need for strategic imagination

The Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, Dr Michael Fullilove AM, gave the 2nd Atal Bihari Vajpayee Memorial Lecture at the invitation of the Ministry of External Affairs of India

By Michael Fullilove

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Australian election 2022: Big businesses, small productivity gains

Originally published in The Canberra Times

By John Edwards

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America Is Up—and China Is Down—in Asia

But U.S. Power Faces Threats at Home. Originally published in Foreign Affairs.

By Michael Fullilove, Hervé Lemahieu

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Managing Asia’s bipolar disorder

US standing is up, China has been dragged down and middle nations have seen a steady decline in their influence, according to the latest Lowy Institute Asia Power Index. Originally published in The Australian Financial Review

By Hervé Lemahieu

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The internet of things: China’s rise and Australia’s choices

The digital networks of East and Southeast Asia are increasingly dominated by China’s tech, creating social, economic, and security challenges that must be managed

By John Lee

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Digital Conference: The Indo-Pacific Operating System

The digital conference The Indo-Pacific Operating System: Power, Order and Rules for the 21st Century was hosted by the Lowy Institute on 1-2 December 2021

By Ben Scott, Sasha Fegan, Hervé Lemahieu

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Solomon Islands unrest not helped by foreign powers behaving badly

While geopolitics may have been a spark, the true drivers of this week’s unrest go much deeper than foreign policy. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

By Jonathan Pryke

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Australia’s early intervention can help Solomon Islands but the roots of the conflict run deep

Honiara has awoken to a calmer scene but tension lingers as quelling the violent protests has not resolved their underlying causes. Originally published in The Guardian

By Mihai Sora

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In Conversation: Kurt Campbell, White House Indo-Pacific Coordinator

The White House Indo-Pacific Coordinator Kurt Campbell spoke to Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Fullilove on the first day of the digital conference 'The Indo-Pacific Operating System' on 1 December 2021

By Michael Fullilove

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2021 Owen Harries Lecture - Mathias Cormann

The 2021 Owen Harries Lecture was given on 24 November 2021 by Hon. Mathias Cormann, Secretary-General of the OECD. After the lecture, Mr Cormann spoke in conversation with the Lowy Institute's Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove

By Michael Fullilove

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US seeks recalibration, but China is unlikely to reciprocate

Washington wanted the Biden-Xi meeting to establish guardrails to prevent confrontation. Beijing will probably see that as just code for maintenance of the US-dominated status quo. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

By Ben Scott

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Confessions of a Reserve Bank board member

Originally published in The Canberra Times

By John Edwards

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2021 Lowy Lecture | Jake Sullivan

The 2021 Lowy Lecture was given on 11 November 2021 by Jake Sullivan, National Security Adviser to US President Joe Biden. After the lecture, he spoke in conversation with Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Fullilove

By Jake Sullivan

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Vigilance against foreign influence does not require overzealous suspicion of Chinese-Australians

Originally published in The Sydney Morning Herald

By Jennifer Hsu

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What Taiwan really wants

Originally published in The New York Times

By Natasha Kassam

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Lines blurred: Chinese community organisations in Australia

Examining the impact of Australia’s foreign interference debate and Beijing’s reach in Chinese-Australian community organisations

By Jennifer Hsu, Richard McGregor, Natasha Kassam

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Telstra’s Digicel Pacific challenge

The deal with the government insulates the telco from financial risk. But accepting the role of Australia’s lead business ambassador in the region makes it no set-and-forget investment. This article was first published in the Australian Financial Review on 29 October 2021

By Mihai Sora, Jonathan Pryke

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Far more than just the money, Digicel is a very big deal

Originally published in The Australian. By Jonathan Pryke and Mihai Sora

By Jonathan Pryke

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International rules make U.S.-China conflict more likely

Cross-border principles governing conduct only exist if they are accepted by states. Originally published in Nikkei Asia Review

By Ben Scott

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China, climate politics and COP26

Success at the Glasgow climate change conference relies on China accelerating its energy transition, and the United States and other rich countries making an effective alternative appeal to the developing world

By Sam Geall

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Why Australia needs a security rebalance

The pandemic has blown up any idea that we can easily spot the future threats to Australia. So how do we prioritise our finite security resources? Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

By Ben Scott

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The missing anchor: Why the EU should join the CPTPP

In the absence of the United States, consideration should be given to the European Union as a central player in an expanded Indo-Pacific trade accord

By Peter Draper, Naoise McDonagh

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PNG is back on the brink of a delta variant disaster

Complacency and vaccine hesitancy at all levels of society have left PNG wide open to delta infection. The country needs outside help – and very quickly. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review. By Jonathan Pryke and Brendan Crabb.

By Jonathan Pryke

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Translating Tension: Chinese-language media in Australia

A new report into Australia’s Chinese-language media content examines the news landscape of one of the country’s largest diaspora communities

By Fan Yang

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Australia is Making a Risky Bet on the U.S.

Australia has thrust itself into a central role in America’s rivalry with China. Originally published in The New York Times

By Sam Roggeveen

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What a new defence pact reveals about America

A deal between the United States, Britain, and Australia serves as a rebuttal of the argument that Washington is in retreat. First published in The Atlantic

By Michael Fullilove

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AUKUS must walk and chew gum at the same time

Originally published in The Canberra Times

By Ben Scott

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Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Australia’s Response to the Coup in Myanmar

The following Joint Submission to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia was made by the Lowy Institute’s Ben Bland and Hervé Lemahieu on Australia’s response to the coup in Myanmar. Their comments were cited in a report produced by the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs,

By Ben Bland, Hervé Lemahieu

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This is America’s new foreign policy on show

The abandoning of Afghanistan is all about a shift to diplomacy and deal-making, not firepower and force. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

By Ben Scott

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New man in Tehran aims for supreme power

Originally published in The Australian

By Rodger Shanahan

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How Biden's China doctrine can swing the pendulum back

A shift toward the center is more likely in coming months. Originally published in Nikkei Asia Review

By Ben Scott

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The trouble with Washington’s ‘Rules-Based Order’ gambit

Improved U.S. compliance with international norms would greatly enhance U.S. defense of the rules-based international order. Originally published in The Diplomat

By Ben Scott

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Why the US is quietly outshining China

Xi Jinping likes to say China owns the future and the West is in decline. But appearances can also deceive. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

By Sam Roggeveen

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China’s communists guard their future from the past

As they celebrate their party’s centenary, China’s leaders remain obsessed with the fate of the Soviet Union and its political reforms. They study history to avoid a repeat. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

By Peter Cai

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Australia and the Growing Reach of China’s Military

Beijing’s maritime and aerospace capabilities will have serious implications in the event of an Indo-Pacific power play

By Thomas Shugart

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Xi's tech crackdown preserves socialism with Chinese characteristics

Protecting foreign investors has never been a top priority. Originally published in Nikkei Asia Review

By Richard McGregor

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Bridging Papua New Guinea’s information divide

In the lead-up to the 2022 national election, Papua New Guinea must address its information gap by investing in the public broadcaster

By Shane McLeod

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Xi Jinping reels in his tech titans

Private enterprise created China’s vaunted digital economy. But Big Brother is always in charge. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

By Richard McGregor

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China’s looming succession crisis

What will happen when Xi is gone? Originally published in Foreign Affairs

By Richard McGregor, Jude Blanchette

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Australia buying Digicel hits two birds with one stone

On top of staving off a China telco monopoly, underwriting the purchase would show the government is putting big money on the table to get ‘blue chip’ companies to invest in the Pacific. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

By Jonathan Pryke, Shane McLeod

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There is no wages case for a permanent cut to immigration

RBA governor Philip Lowe makes a reasonable point about the short-term suppression of wages in some industries. But long-run evidence shows migration lifts demand for workers. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

By Roland Rajah

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Lowy Institute Poll 2021

In this its seventeenth year, the Lowy Institute Poll continues to chart how Australians feel about the world and its challenges, including COVID, China and climate change

By Natasha Kassam

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Fear of military conflict on the rise in Australia

In an opinion piece originally published in The Australian newspaper, Lowy Institute director of public opinion and foreign policy Natasha Kassam and research director Alex Oliver describe how the pandemic, China’s behaviour, and a change in US leadership have catalysed some rapid shifts

By Natasha Kassam, Alex Oliver

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