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Category Archives: International Affairs
JOHN MCCARTHY. Beyond the Pandemic
Australia can no longer rely on the US for our security shield. Australia must secure longterm multilateral structures with our south-east Asian neighbours in order to better prepare ourselves for the world after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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RAMESH THAKUR. Lives vs lives: Corona without karuna
Coronavirus threatens to overwhelm the health and economies of many developing countries where a billion people subsist in a Hobbesian state of nature and life is ‘nasty, brutish and short’.
Posted in Asia, Health
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ANDREW FARRAN. Wither Brexit and the Trade System under Covid-19?
Where can the suspended post-Brexit negotiations go from here when the very multilateral trading system, along with globalisation, is on its uppers, under the curse of the CaronaVirus pandemic? What will the negotiators be able to come to grips with … Continue reading
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JOCELYN CHEY. “People Matter” – Let’s Not Make Exceptions
The corona virus emergency should bring out the best in people, but in some it is causing vicious blame-sharing. Fingers are being pointed at Chinese Australians and accusations levelled of lack of patriotism and even illegal activities.
Posted in International Affairs
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HARSH MANDER. A pandemic in an unequal India (Hindu 1.4.20)
The irony is that a pandemic has been brought into India by people who can afford plane tickets, but while they will buy private health services, the virus will devastate the poor who they infect and who have little access … Continue reading
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RAMESH THAKUR. US-India relations shape Japan’s strategic environment (Japan Times 23.3.20)
Japan’s strategic environment is shaped by the intersection of three major geopolitical story lines: the rise of China as a comprehensive national power; the Trump administration’s reset of relations with China into full-spectrum strategic competition; and the expansion, consolidation and … Continue reading
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SHIRO ARMSTRONG.- Is Australia trading too much with China (EAF 16.3.2020)
China accounts for close to a quarter of all of Australia’s international trade, and over a third of its exports, including both goods and services. Is Australia trading too much with China and too dependent on the Chinese economy, as … Continue reading
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RAMESH THAKUR. Coronavirus pandemic: sceptical question marks make for better policy than excitable exclamation marks
When did the world’s media and politicians become collective versions of Lance Corporal Jones in the British comedy series Dad’s Army, screaming ‘Don’t panic! Don’t panic!’? Colour me contrarian, but since the 2003 Iraq war, my working motto has been: when … Continue reading
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JOHN TAN. John Mearsheimer: Foreign policy hawk? Controversial as ever. Part 2 (of 2):
He has enraged the Israel lobby in Washington with his book about the lobby and US foreign policy. He is persona non grata in many circles, but he’s not taking a step back.
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DUNCAN GRAHAM.-The wealthiest one per cent (all men) own half Indonesia’s total wealth.
Ma’ruf Amin is a name few Australians would recognize. Before his election last year as Indonesia’s vice-president, the hard-right Islamic cleric showed minimal interest in his southern neighbour. Suddenly he wants Australian aid.
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JOHN TAN. John Mearsheimer: Foreign policy hawk? Controversial as ever. Part 1 (of 2):
His theory of offensive realism is the most aggressive of all foreign policy theories. He believes China’s continued rise will likelylead to a muscular contest; and he has enraged the Israel Lobby in Washington. But his story is much more … Continue reading
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WANNING SUN.-Response to ‘Red Flag: Waking Up to China’s Challenge’ by Peter Hartcher
Following the logic of his own argument, can we assume that Hartcher now wants to recant the position he has advanced in the Quarterly Essay?
Posted in Asia, International Affairs, Politics
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JOHN TULLOH. Uncle Sam makes it an unhappy Persian new year in Iran.
One can only surmise at the quiet satisfaction among members of the Trump administration at the current distress of Iran regarding the coronavirus sweeping the country.
Posted in Health, International Affairs
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ALISON BROINOWSKI. Outstaying our welcome in Iraq.
As US installations in Iraq come under increasing attack, the message that they are no longer needed is clear. Camp Taji near Baghdad, where a few hundred Australians are still based, has been hit by missiles in recent days. How … Continue reading
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HUGH WHITE.-Why India isn’t going to save Australia from China’s power(EAF 15.3.2020)
Will India save us from China?
Posted in Asia, International Affairs
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RAMESH THAKUR. Delhi in flames
Last month’s deadly riots in Delhi were a state-sponsored pogrom. To prevent an uncontrollable mass tragedy that could destabilise the Asia–Pacific region, friendly governments must speak out now.
Posted in Asia, International Affairs
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JINHEE KIM. COVID-19: Lessons from South Korea’s quick response
In mid-February the number of cases of COVID-19 in South Korea suddenly increased and there are now over 5,000 confirmed cases. As a result South Korea has instituted containment strategies, designated clinics for mass screening and established over 200 public … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Health
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COLUM LYNCH and ROBBIE GRAMER.-U.S. and China Turn Coronavirus Into a Geopolitical Football (Foreigh Policy(USA) 11.3.2020)
Beijing is using the outbreak to boost its reputation for global cooperation while Washington plays the blame-Beijing game.
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JOHN FEFFER.- Will COVID-19 Kill Globalisation(Counterpunch 10.3.2020)
At a dinner party in mid-February, an architect told me that he was having a problem finishing his building projects. It was the carpets.
Posted in Economy, International Affairs, Politics
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MELISSA CONLEY TYLER & PRAVIN SILVA: Building Asia-Australia Engagement through the New Colombo Plan
The New Colombo Plan has celebrated its first five years funding Australian students to study and work in the Indo-Pacific. As a high-profile Australian Government program, what has it achieved? And what do we know about its wider impact?
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ALAN BOYD.-Spy versus spy as China eyes US bases in Australia.( Asia Times 2.3.2020)
China conducts deepwater surveys near secretive base US and Australian subs and ships use in South China Sea.
Posted in Asia, Defence/Security, International Affairs
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RICHARD MCGREGOR.-China and Japan: Facing History By Ezra F. Vogel Belknap Press, 2019(Global Asia Book Review)
A strategic China would have seduced Japan as a way of undermining US power in Asia. Their failure to do so in all likelihood means that the US is in East Asia to stay, no matter what.
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JOCELYN CHEY: Turbo Charge or Tough It Out? The New Board for the Foundation for Australia-China Relations
One important category of Chinese Australians is not represented, and some choices seem calculated to prejudice improving relations with the People’s Republic of China.
Posted in Asia, International Affairs
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DUNCAN GRAHAM The Washington watcher on UWA’s cast-iron balcony
Why is the Perth-based USAsia Centre backed by Australian taxpayers? If this foreign influencer was run by the Chinese or Russians it would be forensically examined. As a US show it slips past scrutineers.
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OSMOND CHIU. What should Australia do about its politics being too white? (China Matters 25.2.2020)
Australian politics is too white. It is less diverse than comparable countries such as the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Canada. This is embarrassing.
Posted in Asia, Politics
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DUNCAN GRAHAM.The pachyderm on the patio
Kupang is at the bottom of West Timor. It’s the largest city in far eastern Indonesia. Imagine how Canberra would react if Jakarta allowed the People’s Liberation Army Air Force to station their armed jets just 830 km northeast of … Continue reading
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MIKE SCRAFTON. Is the US a normal country?
Remarks at the Munich Security Conference by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper are full of unconscious irony.
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CAMERON DOUGLAS. Thailand’s future party now past tense
Thailand’s constitutional court has what must be unique powers to decide the fate of political parties – and the shape of national politics. It exercised its powers again last week. The latest party to threaten military-backed authoritarian rule there no … Continue reading
JOHN TAN. Jokowi, identity politics … and neoliberalism.
President Joko Widodo is concerned by identity politics, which has been standard fare for neoliberal US and Australian election strategists for many years.
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ALISON BROINOWSKI. Organised violence: the US and China compared
The world has seen the rise and fall of some 150 empires. That number doesn’t even include the United States, whose unacknowledged empire includes more than 800 military bases in some 70 countries.
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