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John Lee
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The future of the US-Australia alliance in an era of great power competition
The US-Australia alliance has been indispensable for more than seven decades, but it has also always been a work in progress. In the present environment, both Australia and the United States are confronting an increasingly assertive China, which is bringing new challenges to the alliance.
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The end of Chimerica: the passing of global economic consensus and the rise of US-China strategic technological competition
Chinese economic and trade malpractices over a long period of time are having profound distorting effects on the global economic system and US dissatisfaction is deepening and irreversible. This publication argues Australia has been slow or else reluctant to accept that the previous global economic consensus of free and open trade (especially with China) being...
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Lonely power, staying power
This paper challenges a number of assumptions about the transformation of Asia's security environment.
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Malaysian dilemma: the enduring cancer of affirmative action
Malaysia's four decade old affirmative action social and economic experiment has failed, argues this report.
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Unrealised potential: India's 'soft power' ambition in Asia
This paper makes the argument that India’s enormous ‘soft power’ potential in Asia is based on the fact that a rising India (unlike China) complements rather than challenges the preferred strategic, cultural and normative regional order.