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How Australia can use economic diplomacy to get closer to Asia

There is more to be said about Martin Parkinson's speech on US economic diplomacy, and in particular how Australian attention has been diverted from the challenge of developing our relationship with Asia through region-based arrangements. Parkinson says that 'what is striking about post-war Asia

By Stephen Grenville

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Much at stake for Turnbull and the region at East Asia Summit

The 10th East Asia Summit this weekend promises to be one of the most interesting bits of summitry in some time. This, the last stop on Malcolm Turnbull’s five-nation tour which has included one-on-one meetings with the top three on Forbes' Most Powerful List, is also likely to prove the most

By Elliot Brennan

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Why Australia must send its navy to assert the freedom to operate in the South China Sea

After much internal debate and soul searching, the US has conducted its first 'Freedom of Navigation' operation in the South China Sea for several years. It will not be the last and we are fast approaching the point at which Australia needs to decide whether it will assert, with more than

By James Goldrick

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The TPP is not a containment strategy

Is the TPP an effort to contain China? If you've been reading the papers or glancing at social media recently, you could be forgiven for thinking so. The New York Times didn't quite use the word containment, but argued that the agreement was a 'win for the United States in its contest with China

By Aaron L Connelly

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Malabar: Modi Government misses an opportunity as annual exercise slumps

US-India relations are in good shape. The personal relationship between Modi and Obama appears excellent, there are big, ambitious ideas in the pipeline – like US assistance to Indian carrier development – and the strategic dialogue is getting deeper in several ways. But things are falling

By Shashank Joshi

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Xi in America: China's poor grasp of public diplomacy on full display

Having a Catholic Pope and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China descend on Washington at almost exactly the same time helped illustrate something important about diplomacy. When staging a high-level state visit, there is a simple choice: emphasise either the head or the heart. This

By Kerry Brown

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As China marches forward, Japan and Russia watch with worry

Just one day after China's V-Day parade was held under auspiciously azure skies, smog rolled back over Beijing, as if a reminder of the evanescence of great power. George Orwell wrote that 'he who controls the past controls the future.' China's parade was not only about a remembered past; it is

By Julian Snelder

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Reflections on the 2015 Lowy Lecture: Greater Asia

Delivering the 2015 Lowy Lecture in Sydney yesterday, General David Petraeus outlined a thought-provoking grand strategy for 'Greater Asia'. Geographically, Petraeus defines Greater Asia along a maritime axis from the Mediterranean to the Sea of Japan, but also overland 'from Western Russia to

By Euan Graham

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Hegemon: Wargaming the South China Sea

Hegemon is a wickedly interactive multi-player/multi-round geostrategic game devised by the Potomac Foundation. Each player represents a country, fielding certain economic and military resources and possessing (secret) objectives. Ranged across a gods-eye planetary gameboard, Hegemon is the '

By Julian Snelder

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India's Gurdaspur terrorist attack: Location, timing and method

On 27 July, three militants crossed from Pakistan into the Indian state of Punjab, according to GPS sets they were carrying. They planted five IEDs on a railway track, targeted bus passengers and holed up in a police station in Gurdaspur 20km from the border, eventually killing seven Indians. The

By Shashank Joshi

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Kori Schake and Thomas Wright on the future of US global policy under the Trump administration

Australia’s uneasy alliance

Pragmatic but wary globalists: Australians and the 2017 Lowy Institute Poll

How Australia can use economic diplomacy to get closer to Asia

Much at stake for Turnbull and the region at East Asia Summit

Why Australia must send its navy to assert the freedom to operate in the South China Sea

The TPP is not a containment strategy

Malabar: Modi Government misses an opportunity as annual exercise slumps

Xi in America: China's poor grasp of public diplomacy on full display

As China marches forward, Japan and Russia watch with worry

Reflections on the 2015 Lowy Lecture: Greater Asia

Hegemon: Wargaming the South China Sea

India's Gurdaspur terrorist attack: Location, timing and method

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