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Why China’s Hong Kong crackdown could backfire
9 Mar 2021 | Minxin Pei

The year of the ox has begun darkly for the people of Hong Kong. On 16 February, nine pro-democracy activists, including 82-year-old Martin Lee, the revered long-time leader of the city’s Democratic Party, went on …

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  • CCP
  • China
  • Hong Kong
  • democracy
The compass of Australia’s Asia strategy
9 Mar 2021 | Graeme Dobell

The pandemic has geopolitical and geoeconomics equivalents. Disruption all around, amid the end of the old global order. The central truths that set the topography of Australian grand strategy in Asia—the four compass points—haven’t fallen, …

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  • Asia
  • Australia
  • Indo-Pacific
  • strategy
Do fresh Russia sanctions signal new ‘defence of democracy’ geopolitics?
8 Mar 2021 | Anastasia Kapetas

‘[The government of the Russian Federation is] a government that murders its citizens for highlighting corruption and other abuses.’ —  Holding Russia Accountable for Malign Activities Act of 2020, bill introduced to US Senate, 3 February …

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  • Navalny
  • Russia
  • Vladimir Putin
  • sanctions
The women, peace and security update
8 Mar 2021 | Elena Yi-Ching Ho, Hillary Mansour, Khwezi Nkwanyana and Matthew Page

Debate over fitness tests in US Army With efforts underway in the US Army to re-examine its combat fitness test, Captain Kristen Griest, one of the few women to graduate from US Army Ranger School …

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  • WPS
  • gender
  • women
  • women in combat
Green shoots of solidarity emerge amid Covid-19 vaccine rollout
8 Mar 2021 | Ngaire Woods

In a recent letter to her G20 colleagues, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen argued that a truly global Covid-19 vaccination program ‘is the strongest stimulus we can provide to the global economy.’ With rich countries …

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  • aid
  • coronavirus
  • pandemic
  • vaccine
Australia needs a Magnitsky Act
8 Mar 2021 | Teagan Westendorf

Australia’s war against organised crime has hotted up. The arrest of accused drug lord Tse Chi Lop and allegations of large-scale money laundering in Australian casinos have exposed to the public the deep economic connections …

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  • Australia
  • law enforcement
  • policing
  • sanctions
Policy, Guns and Money: Arbitrary detention, the response to Xinjiang and combating organised crime
5 Mar 2021 | ASPI staff

On 15 February, Canada launched the Declaration Against Arbitrary Detention in State-to-State Relations, a global initiative that aims to raise awareness and stop the practice of arbitrary detention. The Strategist’s Brendan Nicholson speaks with Margaret …

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  • Uyghur
  • detention
  • organised crime
Loyal wingman leads the way to the RAAF of 2121
5 Mar 2021 | Malcolm Davis

The successful first flight of Boeing Australia’s ‘loyal wingman’ uncrewed aircraft opens up a new path for the Royal Australian Air Force as it moves into its second century. The drone is part of the …

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  • RAAF
  • airpower
  • defence capability
  • drones
Suga’s focus on cybersecurity underscores importance of alliances and reform for Japan
5 Mar 2021 | Hiroki Hunter

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, although something of an unknown quantity prior to his appointment, is already showing promising signs of stepping into the foreign policy breach left by his predecessor, Shinzo Abe. Some international …

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  • Indo-Pacific
  • Japan
  • Yoshihide Suga
  • cybersecurity
Governments must engage with Australia’s future leaders to meet the challenges ahead
5 Mar 2021 | Julia Butler

A national survey conducted at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic indicated that Australian governments’ handling of the crisis had considerably increased Australians’ faith in their governments. This is reassuring, yet the threat from Covid-19 …

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  • Australian government
  • policymaking
  • youth
Richardson intelligence review much more than an ‘inside job’
5 Mar 2021 | Peter Edwards

When the authors of the 2017 independent intelligence review recommended that a ‘suitably qualified person’ review the legislative framework of Australia’s intelligence community, they probably had in mind someone like Justice Robert Marsden Hope, whose …

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  • Australian intelligence community
  • intelligence
  • intelligence reform
Preparing for a long winter in Australia–China relations
4 Mar 2021 | Andrew Carr

One of the joys of fatherhood is being reacquainted with the fairy tales and fables of youth. Such stories endure because behind their superficial narratives lies an important moral theme that can apply widely. As …

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  • Australia–China relations
  • defence policy
  • public opinion
Will Biden’s two-pronged approach to the Middle East work?
4 Mar 2021 | Amin Saikal

President Joe Biden has shaken up the Middle East, putting America’s allies on notice and warning its adversaries not to take his administration for granted. He has revealed the traditional carrot-and-stick approach to promote American …

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  • Joe Biden
  • Middle East
  • US foreign policy
Sarkozy’s conviction is a win for the rule of law
4 Mar 2021 | Josef Joffe

The harsh sentence handed down to former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who was found guilty of influence peddling, confirms anew an ancient truth of politics. Even in the world’s most firmly entrenched democracies, corruption remains …

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  • Europe
  • France
  • corruption
  • democracy
Budget rules erode Australian government’s capacity to embrace technology
4 Mar 2021 | Lesley Seebeck

An evergreen question posed by ministers and commentators in Australia is why we haven’t seen government operations and service delivery shift to a more agile, cloud-based system. Late last year, Matt Yannopolous, head of the …

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  • Australian government
  • budget
  • cloud computing
  • technology
Loyal wingman’s first flight shows fourth industrial revolution in defence capability has arrived
3 Mar 2021 | Marcus Hellyer

With the ongoing gloom hanging around Australia’s future submarine program and signs that the future frigate is facing some big problems, it’s great to see some good news out of the Defence Department and its …

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  • Australia
  • RAAF
  • airpower
  • drones
Listing of neo-Nazi group won’t stop the far-right threat to Australia
3 Mar 2021 | Teagan Westendorf

The 2019 Christchurch massacre woke Australians up to the intent of right-wing extremists and their capability to act on violent ideologies. Covid-19 has left many young Australians isolated and vulnerable to the far-right’s hate messaging, …

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  • Home Affairs
  • extremism
  • terrorism
The five-domains update
3 Mar 2021 | Elena Yi-Ching Ho, Hillary Mansour, Khwezi Nkwanyana and Matthew Page

Sea state Prime Minister Scott Morrison ordered two senior naval officers to research alternatives to Australia’s $90 billion submarine contract with France’s Naval Group. Naval Group is yet to finalise its commitment to spend 60% …

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  • Mars
  • airstrikes
  • naval capabilities
  • social media
The factors that could lead to war between the US and China
3 Mar 2021 | Joseph S. Nye

When China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, recently called for a reset of bilateral relations with the United States, a White House spokesperson replied that the US saw the relationship as one of strong competition that …

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  • China
  • Thucydides
  • United States
  • power
It’s time Australians knew their Indonesian neighbour better
3 Mar 2021 | David Engel

If the premises about Australian soft power in Indonesia treated in the first two parts of this series don’t jar, nor should the premise of this final one. It’s that we have little reason to …

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  • Australia
  • Indonesia
  • strategic engagement
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