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ASPI suggests
Posted By The Editors on September 27, 2013 @ 14:30
US Secretary of State John Kerry finds it hard to focus on Asia, writes Robert Kaplan.
John Kerry has made his choice. Chaos in the Middle East is more important to him than historic power shifts in Asia and Europe. Passion, rather than geopolitical vision, drives this Secretary of State.
I think relations between Japan and China are as tense as they have been for a generation and, somewhat unexpectedly, there are also rather poor relations between South Korea and Japan.
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[2] John Kerry finds it hard to focus on Asia: http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2013/09/26/john_kerrys_middle_east_obsession-2.html
[3] on the challenges of chemical weapons disarmament in Syria: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/science/decades-of-disarmament.html?hp&_r=0
[4] the handshake that wasn’t, hope, and scepticism for the Tehran-Washington thaw.: http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2013/09/26/Iran-US-The-thaw.aspx
[5] Wang Yi has been in Washington, including a meeting with Kerry: http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2013/09/214419.htm
[6] new model of great power relations': http://www.brookings.edu/events/2013/09/20-us-china-foreign-minister-wang-yi
[7] China may yet disappoint pessimists: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-25/why-china-will-disappoint-the-pessimists-yet-again.html
[8] piece: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/philippines-city-besieged/
[9] argues: http://www.rsis.edu.sg/publications/Perspective/RSIS1682013.pdf
[10] North East Asia Defence and Security Forum: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-26/sydney-hosts-north-asia-security-talks/4982522
[11] the nuclear threat from North Korea and the recent deterioration in relations between Seoul and Tokyo: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-25/north-korea-nuclear-threat-on-agenda-for-historic-forum/4980222?section=australianetworknews
[12] eleventh hour decision to re-tender its acquisition of new tactical combat aircraft: http://www.defensenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013309240007
[13] this handy NSA keyword false positive generator: http://nsa.motherboard.tv/
[14] RSVP: http://billboard.anu.edu.au/event_view.asp?id=104299
[15] Abbott Government’s foreign policy challenges: http://www.aiia.asn.au/events/all-events/event/817-the-foreign-policy-of-the-new-government-approaches-attitudes-and-challenges
[16] seminar: http://ips.cap.anu.edu.au/cap-events/2013-10-10/re-thinking-bases-us-power-and-authority-east-asia#.UkTKntKnqKA
[17] Korea Update 2013,: http://billboard.anu.edu.au/event_view.asp?id=103688
[18] here: http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/cap_events/attachments/2013/Sep/Korea%20Update%202013%20Program.pdf
[19] annual trilateral dinner on Thursday 31 October with Australia, the United States and Japan: http://www.kokodafoundation.org/Annual-Dinner
[20] future of Indo-Pacific security and middle power coalitions: http://lowyinstitute.org/events/lowy-lecture-series-indo-pacific-balancing-act-search-middle-power-coalition-public-lecture-c-raja
[21] here: https://www.rusi.org.au/states/sa/whats_on.php
[22] Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Secretary_of_State_John_Kerry,_accompanied_by_longtime_Chinese_translator_James_Brown,_stand_in_front_of_the_South_Gate_to_Beihai_Park_and_look_at_Bai_Ta,_or_the_White_Pagoda,_at_Beihai_Park_in_Beijing,_China.jpg