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The compounding risk in Australia’s transition to new submarines
6 Feb 2020 | Marcus Hellyer

Two questions are frequently raised about the process that selected Australia’s preferred partner for the design and build of the future submarine. The first is why the Defence Department didn’t pursue a ‘son of Collins’, …

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  • Collins class
  • Royal Australian Navy
  • future submarine project
  • submarines
Coronavirus response hampered by obfuscation and uncertainty
5 Feb 2020 | Raphael Veit

The outbreak of a new coronavirus, dubbed 2019-nCoV, has shown that we haven’t learned enough from the 2003 SARS epidemic. China continues to struggle with transparency, and, in the absence of data, the international community …

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  • China
  • coronavirus
  • disease
  • health
What Tsai’s re-election in Taiwan means for Australia
5 Feb 2020 | Mark Harrison and Huong Le Thu

Given the landslide election victory of President Tsai Ing-wen, and the likelihood that Beijing will intensify tactics to isolate Taiwan and pressure its government, Australia should consider stepping up its support for Taiwan’s de facto …

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  • Australia
  • Taiwan
  • Tsai Ing-wen
  • election
Trump’s transactional myopia
5 Feb 2020 | Joseph S. Nye

US President Donald Trump’s attacks on unfair Chinese trade and technology policies may have been justified, but his tactics have damaged the alliances and institutions on which the United States depends. Will the short-term gains …

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  • Donald Trump
  • US foreign policy
  • globalisation
  • international order
  • nationalism
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