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Tag: Quadrilateral Security Dialogue

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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Latest: Climate Crisis

On climate change, Australia’s PM pins hopes on complacency or ignorance of voters

7 February 2022

In the 2022 election, too much is at stake for Australians to be duped into thinking that they ”remain well prepared for the future”, and into believing that everything can be fixed by unregulated economic growth.

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Global warming: the nine essential questions for candidates at election 2022

13 January 2022

Trends in Australia’s emissions growth are disturbing. What questions should be put to the political classes who aspire to take on the responsibility for the wellbeing, welfare, prosperity and security of Australian citizens?

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About Mike Scrafton

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

Most read this week

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  • What’s the role of hydrogen in the clean energy transition? (UCS) 29 December 2020
  • A critique of Australia’s SEA1000 Future Submarine project – from the outside 8 February 2020
  • Global warming: the nine essential questions for candidates at election 2022 13 January 2022
  • Divided we stand: Democrats and Republicans diverge on US foreign policy (Chicago Council) 14 October 2020

Most read in the last year

  • An American theocracy: the advance of Christian nationalism 26 January 2021
  • Once was a hegemon: Australia and the decline of the US 3 June 2021
  • The warning that wasn’t: Robert Gottliebsen’s warning to the Australian nation on the Future Submarines 19 February 2020
  • 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

Disclaimer

Mike’s writing is not published with his permission on any profit-making websites, blogs or forums associated with profit-making business entities. Mike has no current association with any commercial organisation. He is a completely independent writer, derives no income from his writing, and does not endorse the products or services of any business entity.

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