JOHN MENADUE. The ASEAN Summit in Sydney this weekend.

March 16, 2018

The meeting this weekend will highlight for Australia the importance of our relations with regional countries.  It will also highlight the importance of our relationship with the US and China, and how that rivalry can best be managed in association with regional countries. As background to this weekend's Summit meeting, I provide links to five important foreign policy articles that were posted on Pearls and Irritations in May/June 2016. These articles were part of a series called Fairness, Opportunity and Security edited by Michael Keating and myself.  The Foreign Affairs articles were written by former senior officials of the...