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Tag: South Korea

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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South Korea, China agree on early Xi visit, North Korea talks

27 November 2020 Online editor In the news

Reuters reports that China’s Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, has visited South Korea, and met with South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in, and foreign minister, Kang Kyung-wha.

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What happens now the RCEP trade deal has been signed?

16 November 2020 Online editor In the news

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RECP) agreement: Fifteen Asia-Pacific economies have signed what could become the world’s largest free trade agreement, covering nearly a third of the global population and about 30% of its global gross domestic product.

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US-China relations: Busy week as US maintains pressure on China and seeks to solidify regional relationships

14 November 2020 Online editor In the news

Even in what are almost certainly its last weeks, there is no sign yet that the Trump administration will lessen its efforts to make a lasting mark on relations between China and the US and its Asia-Pacific partners and allies.

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Asia-pacific trade deal covering 29% of world’s GDP expected to be signed shortly

10 November 2020 Online editor In the news

It is reported that the world’s largest trade pact involving 15 countries in the Asia Pacific – which account for 29% of global gross domestic product – is expected to be signed during a virtual leaders summit to be held on 15 November 2020.

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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
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  • 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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