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Would Australian defence of Taiwan amount to the crime of aggression?

16 August 2022 Mike Scrafton Global, Uncategorized

The people of Taiwan are in a deeply unenviable position. But international law is neutral over political systems, and Taiwan’s democracy gives it no special right to secede. Does advocating for this make Australia a revisionist state?

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‘Quad’ repurposed for, amongst other things, vaccine diplomacy contest

15 March 2021 Online editor Foreign policy, trade and diplomacy, In the news, Uncategorized

Leaders of the United States, Japan, India and Australia have launched “a landmark partnership to further accelerate the end of the COVID-19 pandemic” in a move widely interpreted as an effort to counter China’s influence in the Asia-Pacific region.

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Defence Strategic Update 2020: A first assessment (James Goldrick)

30 July 2020 Online editor Uncategorized

Retired Royal Australian Navy Admiral James Goldrick provides an initial assessment of the Strategic Update, suggesting that the strategic assessment is sound, but that “the planned measures” may not be enough, and may not “be in place in time to achieve the deterrent effects now deemed so necessary”.

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COVID-19 crisis. Can governments and institutions rise to the challenge?

18 March 2020 Online editor Uncategorized
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Most read this week

  • Once was a hegemon: Australia and the decline of the US 3 June 2021
  • The pandemic and the limits of realism (Seth A Johnston) 3 July 2020
  • What’s the role of hydrogen in the clean energy transition? (UCS) 29 December 2020
  • Australia’s foreign policy: Resurgent realism or the survival of multilateralism? 5 July 2020
  • Will Australia always follow the innocent nation into war? 25 March 2023

Most read in the last year

  • An American theocracy: the advance of Christian nationalism 26 January 2021
  • Australia’s foreign policy: Resurgent realism or the survival of multilateralism? 5 July 2020
  • What’s the role of hydrogen in the clean energy transition? (UCS) 29 December 2020
  • America’s proposed Taiwan Policy Act could be a game-changing act of provocation 20 September 2022
  • The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth 8 February 2021

Latest: AUKUS

An Open Letter to the Australian Government from concerned scholars regarding the AUKUS Agreement

26 May 2023

An open letter signed by concerned university academics argues that the public case for AUKUS has yet to be made, and calls on the government not to proceed with the development of a nuclear-powered submarine (SSN) capability for Australia until issues raised are addressed.

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Latest by Mike: Climate Crisis

Facing “Hothouse Earth”, will governments continue half-a-century of inaction?

7 August 2022

About Mike Scrafton

Mike Scrafton is a regularly-published writer on Australian and international affairs. Read more about Mike here.

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