They may not be co-ordinated, nor linked in any way. But two events in Asia over the next week will help define Australia’s political and security environment for the next period. First is the convening…
Bates Gill, Macquarie University and Adam Ni, Australian National University
The upcoming Chinese Communist Party’s 19th National Congress will see one of the biggest turnovers of China’s military elite since the founding of the country.
Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation and Emil Jeyaratnam, The Conversation
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