Peter Varghese on “constraining” China | Lowy Institute
WEB5 days ago · Quoted in Paul Kelly’s 2022 Lowy Institute Paper, Varghese set out a vision to guide Australia’s approach. Our strategy with China should be to ‘engage and constrain’. Australia has no option in a strategic sense but to work with our partners – the US, Japan, India and others – to push back when China behaves in unacceptable ways.
EVs to the internet: Can the US and China unwind technology ...
WEB5 days ago · As our world becomes more digitally interdependent, geopolitical competition is increasingly centred around technology. The United States and China have been unwinding technology interdependence at a dizzying pace. Is there still a path that doesn’t involve US-China tech bifurcation? The most ...
The UK deal on Diego Garcia is positive, but it won’t reverse …
WEB6 days ago · The UK government announced last week that it will cede sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The agreement ends an almost 60-year dispute between the two countries, allowing Chagossians displaced in the early 1970s to return home, and ensuring the continued operation for the next 99 years of the US military base on Diego …
Whither the BRICS? | Lowy Institute
WEB4 days ago · Published 10 Oct 2024. BRICS. Follow @IAHill. Russian President Vladimir Putin will host the 25th BRICS summit in the Russian city of Kazan on 22–24 October. It comes at a time when BRICS – comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and subsequently South Africa – faces an inflection point. Emerging out of the 2007–09 global financial ...
What Japan’s new Prime Minister thinks about Indo-Pacific peace
WEB6 days ago · thinks about Indo-Pacific peace. but those same hands are safe on regional security questions. Japan’s new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during a press conference in Tokyo, Japan on 1 October 2024 (Yuichi Yamazaki via Getty Images) On 1 October, Shigeru Ishiba was sworn in as Japan’s new prime minister, after succeeding …
Conversations: The global impact of a Harris or Trump victory
WEB6 days ago · 8 October 2024. With less than a month to go before one of the most consequential presidential elections in US history, Lowy Institute experts Lydia Khalil, Hervé Lemahieu and Sam Roggeveen sit down to discuss what a potential Trump or Harris administration would mean for the United States and its relationships with allies and …
Governor Tim Walz and Minnesota’s relations with China
WEB5 days ago · In the 2000s, Governors Tim Pawlenty (a Republican) and Mark Dayton (from the Democratic Party) reinvigorated this relationship, leading trade missions and opening offices in Shanghai. By 2019, when Walz became the governor, China was Minnesota’s third-largest export market, and the state attracted $2.7 billion in Chinese investment.
The cruelty in banning Afghan women from poetry | Lowy Institute
WEB4 days ago · After the fall of Kabul in 2021, poetry has helped women communicate the devastation – from the initial chaos, violence and anxiety about the takeover to the deep isolation, fear, deprivation, and hopelessness that many Afghan women now feel. Creative writing is one of the most potent ways that these women can capture and share with the …
When the friendly skies above go dark, rockets light up
WEB6 days ago · The dangers of civilian flights over conflict zones became tragically clear in 2014 when Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people aboard. Cruising at 33,000 feet, the plane entered Ukrainian airspace above a war zone where Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists were actively engaging.
Who’s in, who’s up, and who’s really representing who in …
WEB5 days ago · If Indonesia’s 200 million-plus voters thought they would get a breather after February's presidential election, next month’s regional elections have other plans. Governor offices, mayoral seats and other positions all the way down to the district level are up for grabs on 27 November. With the ...