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Tag: Quadrilateral Security Dialogue

The window for Albanese to assert Australia’s sovereignty is closing

28 May 2022 Mike Scrafton Australian focus

Before the seductive power that security classifications, codeword documents, need-to-know briefings, and the jargon of militarist advisers blunt the critical faculties of ministers, which it almost always does, the new Australian government needs to consider the matter of war.

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Why South Korea is balking at ‘the Quad’

15 April 2021 Online editor Analysis and comment, Foreign policy, trade and diplomacy

This article explores the reasons why South Korea has been unwilling to join ‘the Quad’, suggesting that here the issue is not just about balancing diverging economic and security interests, but the reality that progressing South Korea’s key security priority – North Korea – requires a more accommodating approach to China.

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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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Biden joining summit with key Asia-Pacific ‘Quad’ leaders

10 March 2021 Online editor In the news, Strategy, defence and security

US President Joe Biden will join with the leaders of Japan, India and Australia on Friday this week [12 March 2021] at a virtual gathering of the “Quadrilateral Security Dialogue”.

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India, US, Japan and Australia begin Exercise Malabar naval drills

3 November 2020 Online editor In the news

Reuters reports that on 2 November “India, the United States, Japan and Australia began their largest joint naval exercises in over a decade”, “seen as part of efforts to balance China’s vast military and economic power in the region”.

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AUKUS

  • Will America use the AUKUS ‘get-out’ clauses?
    16 August 2024
  • Three compelling reasons to exit ANZUS
    15 May 2024
  • Australia’s AUKUS Tributes
    26 March 2024

Featured

Are we paying enough attention to Trump’s Gleichschaltung-like ‘Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership’?

27 September 2023

ISRAEL

  • Ethics-free realism explains, but shouldn’t justify, Western responses to Gaza
    28 January 2024
  • Western leaders must acknowledge Israel’s rights are not untrammelled
    17 November 2023
  • ‘Shared values’ on show in Jerusalem
    7 February 2023

The UKRAINE Archive

  • Trump’s quick deal with Putin could reshape the global order
    19 September 2024
  • The aimlessness of the G7 on Ukraine only delays the inevitable
    20 June 2024
  • Postwar Ukraine will pose the hardest problems
    13 March 2023
  • Tanks for Ukraine won’t bring war-ending negotiations any closer
    27 January 2023
  • After Ukraine a fractured and unravelling global order will confront governments
    10 May 2022
  • Ethics and war: the Ukrainian tragedy
    2 May 2022
  • US National Security and Ukraine: What’s the connection?
    19 January 2020

Most read this week

  • Will America use the AUKUS ‘get-out’ clauses? 16 August 2024
  • Trump’s pre-modern approach to Sovereignty must be resisted 25 February 2025
  • Could Australia find the courage to end its alliance with America? 23 June 2023
  • The aimlessness of the G7 on Ukraine only delays the inevitable 20 June 2024

Most read in the last year

  • Are we paying enough attention to Trump’s Gleichschaltung-like ‘Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership’? 27 September 2023
  • Trump and Vance’s theocratic republic of America 3 August 2024
  • Republicans push for Mexican-American war: Don’t rule it out 30 August 2023
  • Could Australia find the courage to end its alliance with America? 23 June 2023

About Mike Scrafton

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

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