In this podcast, senior fellow from the Lowy Institute and expert on Asia Richard McGregor joins The Conversation to canvass the prime minister's coming trip to China.
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Germany and England spend around A$4–5 per capita on cultural engagement and diplomacy. We spend 20 cents.
The US Ambassador to Australia post remains vacant after Admiral Harry Harris was reassigned to South Korea. But the diminished role of ambassadors means this is not cause for alarm.
The Australian government is expelling two Russian spies as part of a broad international retaliatory action against Russia.
Australia’s challenge is to prove its utility to ASEAN, and vice versa.
The underlying implication of Malcolm Turnbull’s Tokyo visit was the interest shared by Japan and Australia to counter the strategic rise of China.
From an Australian perspective, shifting power in the Indo-Pacific will be of primary importance in 2018 and beyond.
It was Paul Keating himself who first raised the idea of a security agreement between Indonesia and Australia in June 1994 to Indonesian President Soeharto.
The closest idea to an actual plan in the white paper seems to be to double-down on the US relationship, and trust that the Trump administration is a blip.
Speaking with: Professor Bates Gill on Australia’s changing relationship with China
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William Isdale speaks with Bates Gill on the importance of Australia's relationship with China and how best to navigate the sometimes complex alliance.
It turns out that the president of the Philippines is exactly who he said he was.
What vastly complicates Western policy in Syria is how to sanction Assad on one hand and deal with Islamic State on the other, without the country unravelling completely.
For Australia, Brexit is the diplomatic equivalent of moving into a shared house with a divorcing couple.
The usual procedures for extradition between countries with substantial and complex bilateral relations – like those that Australia and China have – will now not be available.
Now, more than at any time in our history, Australia needs a relationship with China ‘comparable with that which we have, or seek, with other major powers’.
The US alliance will remain the cornerstone of Australian security, but regional partnerships will become more important and exploitable - sentimental ties aside.
After the extraordinary attention accorded to the visit to Australia by the leader of a country whose economic importance to us is limited – if prospective – it might not be a bad idea to put all this…
Australian and American leaders over the years have, from time to time, disagreed or said things to cause embarrassment. But, for the most part, such disagreements have been kept out of the limelight.
US presidents over the past 25 years have had varying views of the alliance with Australia. While none have questioned its value, commitment has not been even across the board.
The annual Conference of Australian and Indonesian Youth (CAUSINDY) to be held in Bali this week is an initiative that can help change negative attitudes towards Indonesia.
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Adjunct professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Tony Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Director, Center for Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Studies, Georgetown University
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Faculty (Japan Campus), Temple University
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Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University., La Trobe University
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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Assistant Professor in International Relations, Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII) Yogyakarta
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Course Co-ordinator, International Law Clinical Program, ANU College of Law, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, Monash University
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Professor and Director of the Policy Innovation Hub, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
VC Fellow, La Trobe University
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Researcher in Political Science, The University of Melbourne
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Historian, The University of Melbourne
