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Indo-Pacific Operating System | Digital Conference - DAY 1
The Indo-Pacific Operating System: Power, order and rules for the 21st century
How does the Indo-Pacific work? How should it work? Decades of relative peace in the Indo-Pacific have enabled rapid economic growth and rising prosperity. But the region is now at the centre of an escalating strategic and geoeconomic competition.
The US and China are not the only protagonists. Across the Indo-Pacific, countries are grappling with urgent questions: what structures — military, economic and political — does the region need to ensure continued peace and prosperity? Is the ASEAN-centred regional architecture fit for purpose? How do new groups, like AUKUS and the Quad, contribute to regional order? What are the new rules, who gets to make them, and who will enforce them?
This 2021 Lowy Institute digital conference brought together leading experts to discuss and debate these pressing questions.
Opening Address: Kurt Campbell, White House Coordinator for the Indo-Pacific
Kurt Campbell served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs on the National Security Council, and previously as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the Obama Administration. In 2013 he received the Secretary of State's Distinguished Service Award and served as the Lowy Institute's Distinguished International Fellow.
Keynote Speech: Peter Dutton, Minister for Defence
The Hon Peter Dutton MP served as Minister for Defence from 30 March 2021. He previously served as the inaugural Home Affairs Minister and as Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, and was a member of the National Security Committee of Cabinet for six years.
Lecture: China's Vision for a New World Order — Nadège Rolland
Nadège Rolland is Senior Fellow for Political and Security Affairs at the National Bureau of Asian Research and a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute. Prior to joining the NBR, she served for two decades as an analyst and Senior Adviser on Asian and Chinese strategic issues to the French Ministry of Defence, for which she was awarded the Medal of Honour.
Featuring
Kurt Campbell
Dr Kurt Campbell was the inaugural 2013 Lowy Institute Distinguished International Fellow.
Peter Dutton
Peter Dutton served as the leader of the Opposition and the leader of the Liberal Party from 2022 to 2025.