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Jordan – Royal rifts: Implications of Jordan’s family feud (The Interpreter)

SHANNON MCGARRY,  RODGER SHANAHAN A supposed coup, a would-be king and restless youth. Trouble is brewing in the Hashemite kingdom. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/royal-rifts-implications-jordan-s-family-feud

Southeast Asia – Post-Covid disaster governance in Southeast Asia (The Interpreter)

ANGELO PAOLO L. TRIAS,  ALISTAIR D.B. COOK The pandemic revealed a narrow focus on natural hazards,lacking the systems needed for an increasingly complex world. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/post-covid-disaster-governance-southeast-asia

Taiwan/Australia – When the chips are down over Taiwan, what’s Australia’s stake in the game? (East Asia Forum)

Editorial Board, ANU The talk of war in Canberra over China’s threat to Taiwan in recent weeks seems a little at odds with perceptions elsewhere...

Taiwan/Australia – Talking up war over Taiwan flouts reason, fact, judgment and Australia’s national interest (East Asia Forum)

Gareth Evans, ANU It is never wise, in foreign affairs and defence policymaking, for emotion to trump reason, for politics to trump objectivity, or for...

USA/China – Washington is playing a losing game with China (East Asia Forum)

Chas W Freeman Jr, Brown University America’s latest policies toward China will prove self-defeating. US–China relations now exemplify Freeman’s third law of strategic dynamics: for...

China – China’s plan to become a world-leading technology force (East Asia Forum)

Yutao Sun, Dalian University of Technology and Cong Cao, University of Nottingham Ningbo China On 12 March 2021, China released an outline of its 14th...

China/Syria – Why China will not rebuild Syria (East Asia Forum)

Samy Akil, ANU and OPC A decade since the start of the Syrian civil war, debate on the conflict is shifting toward the rebuilding of the country....

ASEAN/Myanmar – ASEAN needs resources to get results in Myanmar (East Asia Forum)

Lina Alexandra, CSIS Indonesia The informal ASEAN Leaders’ Meeting held in Jakarta on 24 April exceeded expectations. Given the view among some ASEAN countries that...

Tackling climate risk in Asia through AMRO and the NGFS (East Asia Forum)

Giridharan Ramasubramanian, ANU Climate change will be a source of significant physical and socioeconomic risk in Asia. To manage the transition to a new climate reality, countries...

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