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Greg Raymond, Alice Dawkins 23 Jul 2019 11:30

What the rest of Asia thinks about China’s Belt and Road Initiative

A better sense of South-South cooperation helps understand the direction of China’s trillion-dollar flagship.
Greg Raymond 13 Mar 2019 06:00

Military on the front line in Thai election

An ex-army general poised to become prime minister and a junta-manipulated constitution has many Thais fired up.
John Blaxland, Greg Raymond 11 Dec 2017 10:39

Learning to trust: Lessons from Thailand, the US and China

Attitudes about friend or foe shift dramatically when countries work together on a serious security problem.
Greg Raymond 25 Jul 2017 08:46

Thailand: The case for optimism

A clean, elected, non-Thaksin Thailand government might be able to walk a narrow path by pursuing more progressive social and economic policy without offending the powerful elites.
Greg Raymond 23 Jun 2017 15:57

A revived Quad won't help Australia

Australia has a perfect right to form associations, groupings, dialogues and alliances with whomever it chooses. But wise statecraft does not deal only with entitlements and rights.
Greg Raymond 20 Jul 2016 08:30

More heat than light in Australian FONOPs debate

Australia’s febrile domestic politics produced another petty point-scoring moment after the shadow defence minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, sought political mileage from last Tuesday’s historic South China Sea arbitration. Senator Conroy criticised the government for not sanctioning Freedom of Navigation of Operations (FONOPs); in response, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop slapped Conroy down for unnecessarily raising tensions on a delicate matter.
Greg Raymond 30 May 2016 14:35

The South China Sea: Next Stop the UN Security Council?

All the signs indicate that China is preparing to reject the anticipated adverse judgment of the Permanent Court of Arbitration on the South China Sea. The Philippines is arguing that China is acting illegally in exploiting resources in the areas beyond the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) limits while forcibly preventing other nearby states like the Philippines from exploiting the resources in the same areas.
Greg Raymond 5 Apr 2016 09:32

Political amnesia is damaging Australia's national security

Laura Tingle’s recent Quarterly Essay Political Amnesia: How We Forgot to Govern argues that Australia’s public service policy-making capability has atrophied. The end of agency head tenure, the explosion of ministerial advisors, and the loss of staff with deep historical memory of policy successes and failures have all contributed to the deterioration.
Greg Raymond 5 Apr 2016 00:04

Political amnesia is damaging Australia's national security

Laura Tingle’s recent Quarterly Essay Political Amnesia: How We Forgot to Govern argues that Australia’s public service policy-making capability has atrophied.

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What the rest of Asia thinks about China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Military on the front line in Thai election

Learning to trust: Lessons from Thailand, the US and China

Thailand: The case for optimism

A revived Quad won't help Australia

More heat than light in Australian FONOPs debate

The South China Sea: Next Stop the UN Security Council?

Political amnesia is damaging Australia's national security

Political amnesia is damaging Australia's national security