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Dec 23, 2024 | 
warontherocks.com | Lavina Lee
A lot happens every day. Alliances shift, leaders change, and conflicts erupt. With In Brief, we’ll help you make sense of it all. Each week, experts will dig deep into a single issue happening in the world to help you better understand it. *** As Washington and U.S. allies prepare for the transition to the incoming Trump administration, there is uncertainty about how the new administration will approach AUKUS, the trilateral security partnership with Australia and the United Kingdom.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
nbr.org | Kei Koga |Jasmine Lee |Ji-Young Lee |Ji-young Lee |Lavina Lee
JapanU.S. engagement with Japan and Northeast Asia more broadly has been strong, and Japan hopes this trend will continue under the next U.S. administration to maintain the subregional balance of power.
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May 22, 2024 | 
nbr.org | Lavina Lee |Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan |Wakana Mukai |Jyh-Shyang Sheu
Introduction: Meeting the Challenge of China’s WMD Buildup Bates Gill Stating that the People’s Republic of China (PRC, or China) is “America’s most consequential geopolitical challenge” and “most consequential strategic competitor for the coming decades,” the 2022 U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) and U.S. National Defense Strategy (NDS) made clear that deterring aggression by the PRC is a vital interest of the United States.[1] According to the NDS, China seeks to “refashion the...
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May 22, 2024 | 
nbr.org | Lavina Lee
EXECUTIVE SUMMARYMAIN ARGUMENTAustralia assumes that it is covered by U.S. extended nuclear deterrence, but this has never been acknowledged in joint statements by the two countries. As such, there is a lack of clarity about either country’s understanding of the scope of U.S. nuclear guarantees toward Australian territory or military assets, or what role Australia may be asked to play in supporting U.S. nuclear deterrence in peacetime or in conflict.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Lavina Lee
Lavina Lee is a senior lecturer in the department of security studies and criminology of Macquarie University in Sydney and a nonresident adjunct fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Upon taking office as Australia's prime minister in May 2022, Anthony Albanese promised that his administration would work to "stabilize" relations with China, saying he would "cooperate with China where we can, disagree where we must and engage in our national interest."
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
qoshe.com | Lavina Lee
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Jul 16, 2023 | 
smh.com.au | Lavina Lee
Last week, Paul Keating labelled NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg a "supreme fool" and stridently criticised NATO's "lurch eastward" with its proposed opening of a liaison office in Tokyo. In the former Australian prime minister's view, NATO has no business in Asia, and he firmly rejected any parallels between Russia's invasion of Ukraine and China's coercion of Taiwan and belligerence in the South China Sea.
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May 22, 2023 | 
smh.com.au | Lavina Lee
Opinion International relations expert Save Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Got it As the curtain falls on the G7 meeting in Hiroshima, the world's seven most industrialised countries have sent both Russia and China a clear message of their solidarity and resolve, not only regarding Ukraine but also by aligning with the US in viewing China primarily through a security and geoeconomics lens. Both outcomes are significant.
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May 18, 2023 | 
smh.com.au | Lavina Lee
The decision by US President Joe Biden to cancel his trip to Australia, scuppering plans for the eagerly anticipated Quad leaders meeting in Sydney, has led to a chorus of voices admonishing the US for being unreliable and lacking commitment in the Indo-Pacific. There are even accusations that the president has diminished and damaged the institution of the Quad and handed China a huge public relations and strategic win.
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Mar 11, 2023 | 
independentaustralia.net | Binoy Kampmark |Peter Jennings |Lavina Lee |Lesley Seebeck
Diligently, obediently and with a degree of dangerous imbecility, several Australian media outlets are manufacturing a consensus for war with a country that has never been a natural, historical enemy nor sought to be. But as Australia remains the satellite of a Sino-suspicious U.S. imperium, its officials and their dutiful advocates in the press seem obligated to pave the way for conflict. The latest example of this came in articles run in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
