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My research into how diplomatic missions use Facebook has identified four forms of communication that Ambassadors can attempt.

'Dizzy with Success': What Putin thinks of the Trump ascendancy

by Kyle Wilson

Putin must now be tempted to suspect that God is a Russian; or at least on the side of his righteous and much maligned compatriots.

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Economic diplomacy brief: Summit budgets and mixed messages from Australia’s foreign investment

Turnbull's regional legacy? The spending contrasts between the softer and harder aspects of international policy in the 2017 Budget have underlined again how aid is being left behind by the military (see Alex Oliver's comments here and Jonathan Pryke's here). But there's some

By Greg Earl

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Why Trump attending Southeast Asia’s summit season is good news

Last month US Vice President Mike Pence announced in Indonesia that President Donald Trump would attend the US-ASEAN Summit and East Asia Summit (EAS) in the Philippines and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Vietnam this November. This should come as welcome news to doubters of

By Hunter Marston

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ASEAN Summit: An exercise in omission

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summits are largely defined by what is left unresolved and unsaid, rather than what is acknowledged in the chair statements. The 30th Summit, hosted by the Philippines over the weekend, was certainly no exception, with migrant worker rights and the

By Erin Cook

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Don’t waste time trying to get Trump to Manila

Over the last two months, Australian and Southeast Asian officials have been urging their US counterparts to ensure President Donald Trump shows up at two major summits in Southeast Asia in November. They argue that Trump's presence at the APEC Forum in Danang and the East Asian Summit in Manila

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