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Latest from ASPI The Strategist
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
- A next step for Australia in Southeast Asia: help nations communicate what’s happening at sea
- Australia is not ready for an economic blockade of Taiwan
- Russia’s Pacific submarine fleet could tip the scales in China’s favour
- Keeping Defence above water on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Preparing for surprise: Australian defence in an age of flux
- Fear not for AUKUS as Britain’s new prime minister takes over
- The UN becomes the missing mediator
- Integrating the five domains for a stronger ADF
- Australia should join the defence bank that named it as a priority partner
- Teodoro’s visit to Darwin and Australia-Philippine defence ties – Views from ASPI analysts
- Towards a framework for implementing Australian deterrence
- Bookshelf: How Xi Jinping broke the China dream
- To Lam comes to Australia, wanting to keep Vietnam’s options open
- Australia must not be distracted as China ramps up in the South China Sea
- Northern Australia needs systems thinking, not more standalone projects
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- #22 Project Syndicate77
