By Elke Larsen When tiny Nauru, a nation of less than 10,000 people, is offered $50 million from Russia for a single vote its clear a market has emerged for purchasing support at the United Nations. As an unintended consequence…
Australia
Whose Century?
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By Andrew Shearer This post originally appeared on The Interpreter. Re-posted with permission. Dr. Ken Henry and his team are busy preparing the Government’s White Paper on ‘Australia in the Asian Century’, due to be released in the middle of this…
A Trade Deal Without China
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By Graeme Dobell This post originally appeared on the The Interpreter. Re-posted with permission. Much thought has been devoted to the choices and chances confronting Australia because of potential tensions between the US alliance and the trade bonanza with China.…
Reluctant Realists
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By Malcolm Cook and Andrew Shearer Ideological supporters of Julia Gillard, Barack Obama and the Democratic Party of Japan must be ruing what has happened to their supposedly progressive leaders. Supporters of John Howard, George W. Bush and Junichiro Koizumi…
New Zealand’s Place in Asia from ASEAN’s perspective
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By Daljit Singh A country of just 4 million people, New Zealand punches above its weight in soft power. It is admired in Asia for its good governance, strong support for international institutions and the rule of law, and expertise…
Diverging Visions of Asia’s Future Lead to Polarisation
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By Hugh White Well many thanks to Ernie Bower, both for his very kind recent remarks about my contribution to the debate on U.S.-China relations, and for his entirely apposite and stimulating observations on my description of America’s vision of…
U.S. Marines to Darwin, Australia: Evolution of an Idea
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By Richard W. Teare The agreement announced this week by President Obama and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard under which 250 U.S. Marines – and eventually, 2,500 – will rotate through Australia’s Northern Territory has been a long time coming.…
East Asia Summit Themes in Context
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By Ernie Bower President Barack Obama and the leaders of 17 other countries will meet this weekend, November 19–20, at the sixth East Asia Summit (EAS) in Bali, Indonesia, the first summit in this forum to include the United States…
Eagle Down Under: The Impact of U.S. Presidential Visits on Australian Elections
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By Richard W. Teare Australian prime minister Julia Gillard will get a bump in popularity and political standing from the two-day visit by President Barack Obama this week, which is being described in the Australian media as “Obama mania” and…
Stars and Stripes over Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam? Four Errors in One Premise
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By Carl Thayer Alan Dupont’s op-ed in The Australian “Hello Again America, It’s Just Like you Never Left,” on November 14 contains several glaring errors that undermine his premise the “US Stars and Stripes could once again flutter from US…