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Richard McGregor was Senior Fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute, and a former Beijing and Washington bureau chief for the Financial Times and the author of numerous books on East Asia.

Jennifer Parker is a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute and Adjunct Fellow in Naval Studies at the University of Western Australia. In 2023, the Australian government adopted a “strategy of ...

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An assessment of the size and shape of the PLA's growing capabilities in the Indo-Pacific. Special-operation soldiers aboard the missile frigate Yueyang, a Type 054A (Jiangkai-II class) multi-role ...

Most analysis of Taiwan’s security predicament begins from the outside: in particular on Chinese military modernisation, the credibility of American extended deterrence, the risk of armed conflict ...

Five years ago the Philippines largely squandered a crucial legal win. But it’s not too late to marshal support. Subscribe to The Informer for monthly expert analysis, and to Events for advance notice ...

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In terms of individual countries, the United States remains more influential than China in the Philippines (leading 52–48) and Singapore (51–49). In 2018, it also led China in Thailand, but in 2022, ...

Australians register historic levels of distrust and unease in 2026 Charles Lyons-Jones ...

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