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Tag: NATO

Beijing not Madrid, Prime Minister, would be more in Australia’s interests

28 June 2022 Mike Scrafton Australian focus

Australia’s interests are not obviously met by joining gatherings on distant shores with leaders sharing different strategic concerns. The Asia Pacific remains at the heart of Australia’s economic and strategic interests and the crucible where Australia’s prosperity and peace will be forged.

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The NATO communique highlights Europe’s strategic concern: Russia

25 June 2021 Mike Scrafton Global

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison might have gone to Europe with the Indo-Pacific region “is the epicentre of renewed strategic competition” mantra on his lips, but the NATO communique reflects the reality that it is Russia, not China, that fills Europe’s strategic horizon.

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US troops to withdraw from Afghanistan by 11 September 2021

14 April 2021 Online editor In the news

United States President Joe Biden will leave US troops in Afghanistan past the current May 1 deadline agreed with the Taliban but will withdraw them by September 11, US officials said on Tuesday [13 April 2021]. President Biden is expected to lay out his plan during a speech on Wednesday, 14 April 2021.

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Russia hosts Afghanistan peace talks with US, NATO troop withdrawal deadline looming

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

Russia is to host on Thursday [18 March 2021] the first of three international conferences aimed at jump-starting a stalled Afghanistan peace process ahead of a May 1 deadline for the final withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops from the country.

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Most read this week

  • Once was a hegemon: Australia and the decline of the US 3 June 2021
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  • The pandemic and the limits of realism (Seth A Johnston) 3 July 2020
  • Will Australia always follow the innocent nation into war? 25 March 2023
  • Facing “Hothouse Earth”, will governments continue half-a-century of inaction? 7 August 2022

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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