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The costs of the EU’s surrender to Hungarian and Polish extortion
12 Dec 2020 | George Soros

The European Union is facing an existential threat, and yet its leadership is responding with a compromise that appears to reflect a belief that the threat can simply be wished away. Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s …

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  • Angela Merkel
  • EU
  • Hungary
  • Poland
Policy, Guns and Money: Violent extremism, Biden’s climate agenda and tweet weaponisation
12 Dec 2020 | ASPI staff

In this episode, Leanne Close, head of ASPI’s counterterrorism program, speaks with Peta Lowe, who has over 15 years’ experience working with young people involved with the justice system. They discusses countering violent extremism in …

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  • Australia–China relations
  • climate change
  • violent extremism
Protests over mining and independence hit New Caledonia
11 Dec 2020 | Denise Fisher

Violent disturbances over nickel production, with implications for Australian security, in our close French neighbour, New Caledonia, have attracted attention in Paris, but not here. Only Nic Maclellan, true to excellent form, has written about …

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  • France
  • New Caledonia
  • independence
  • mining
China playing mind games in the grey zone
11 Dec 2020 | Rowan Callick

Amid the cranky grey-zone conflict with the People’s Republic of China, members of Australia’s elites are displaying eagerly their whateverist credentials. The first iteration of whateverism emerged from a notorious editorial jointly published by the …

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  • Australia
  • Australia–China relations
  • China
  • grey zone
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Featured Posts
  • The anatomy of the Special Air Service’s descent into a one-battalion army
    4 Dec 2020 | Jonathan Huston
    The anatomy of the Special Air Service’s descent into a one-battalion army
  • The strategic costs of adopting technology
    7 Dec 2020 | Lesley Seebeck
    The strategic costs of adopting technology
  • Australia risks alienating friends and deterring no one
    8 Dec 2020 | Breanna Gabbert
    Australia risks alienating friends and deterring no one
  • China military watch
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    China military watch
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    Hardened bases needed for ADF’s new hardware
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