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Indonesia/Israel/Palestine – How Gaza occupies Indonesia’s identity wars (The Interpreter)

JOHANNES NUGROHO Israel-Palestinian issues have long featured in Jakarta’s worldview but with a domestic edge, too. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/how-gaza-occupies-indonesias-identity-wars

Papua New Guinea – PNG can’t turn a blind eye to the conflict next door (The Interpreter)

LEANNE JORARI As popular support for West Papua grows more vocal, PNG officials walk a diplomatic tightrope. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/png-can-t-turn-blind-eye-conflict-next-door

Australia/Taiwan – Australia’s dangerously inadequate Taiwan policy debate (The Strategist)

Mark Harrison Australia has passed through a baffling period in public and policy debate on China–Taiwan relations. https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australias-dangerously-inadequate-taiwan-policy-debate/

Australia – What’s beyond the F-35 for Australia? (The Strategist)

Malcolm Davis The evolving debate in the US about the future of the F-35A joint strike fighter may open up new opportunities for the Royal...

Libya – Libya Turns the Page (Crisis Group)

Libyan politicians have moved with salutary speed in 2021 to reunify their divided country. With UN help, the new government should hasten to clear...

Armenia/Azerbaijan – Fate of Zangezur Corridor Unclear Amidst Precarious Tensions Between Armenia and Azerbaijan (The Jamestown Foundation)

Vasif Huseynov On May 17, Armenia’s caretaker prime minister, Nikol Pashinian, convened a Security Council meeting to discuss the latest tense developments on the Armenian-Azerbaijani...

Belarus – Belarus Stages What It Sees as Major Security Operations (The Jamestown Foundation)

Grigory Ioffe On Sunday, May 23, Belarus made headlines around the world for diverting a commercial flight. Ryanair’s Boeing 737-8AS, in transit over Belarus from...

USA/Russia – The Arctic Prelude to a ‘Stabilization’ Summit (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel K. Baev The meeting between US State Secretary Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Reykjavik, Iceland, last week (May 19), was...

Maldives – Former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed Narrowly Avoids Assassination: A Political Conspiracy or Islamic State Plot? (The Jamestown Foundation)

Animesh Roul On May 6, Maldives’ Speaker of Parliament and former President Mohamed Nasheed was seriously injured in an assassination attempt outside his home in...

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