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UK/Indo Pacific – The United Kingdom’s ‘tilt’ toward the Indo-Pacific (Jürgen Haacke, East Asia Forum)

The United Kingdom will soon become ASEAN’s 11th full dialogue partner after the grouping decided to accept the ASEAN Secretariat’s recommendation to confer dialogue-partner status in...

G7 – The G7’s jumpstart for multilateral cooperation (Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit, East Asia Forum)

The 47th G7 Summit was held between 11–13 June 2021 in the United Kingdom. Global problems need global solutions and the G7 is one...

USA – Biden’s Antitrust Revolutionaries (Eric Posner, Project-Syndicate)

With the prominent anti-monopoly advocate Lina Khan having been appointed the new chair of the Federal Trade Commission, it is a good time to...

USA – The Gaps in Bidenomics (Robert Skidelsky, Project-Syndicate)

US President Joe Biden has set out to emulate Franklin D. Roosevelt by spending huge amounts of money, something that FDR avoided doing until...

New Caledonia – New Caledonia’s third independence referendum, and the day after (Alexandre Dayant, The Interpreter)

The third and final self-determination referendum in New Caledonia will take place on 12 December – the date settled after a week of ministerial...

Australia/USA – Maladies, remedies and optimising security (Victor Abramowicz, The Interpreter)

Last week, Peter Dutton gave his first speech as Minister for Defence. In his remarks and follow up Q&A, Dutton touched on the increasing risk of war...

USA/China – US has something to learn from China about securing rare earths (David Uren, The Strategist)

The Biden administration’s 100-day review of supply-chain vulnerabilities has produced fresh insights into the United States’ dependence on China for supplies of rare earths and other...

Iran/Israel/Palestine – Iran’s role in the latest Gaza conflict (Oved Lobel, The Strategist)

References to Iran have been glaringly absent from commentary on the clash between Israel and Palestinian factions in Gaza, even though two primary terrorist...

NATO – The secret to NATO’s survival: Get political (Jamie Shea and Michael John Williams, Atlantic Council)

NATO is a political-military alliance, but the political element has been lost in recent years, frustrating those such as the NATO 2030 Reflection Group who argue...

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