Author: David Karl, Asia Strategy Initiative
After much criticism for appearing to neglect New Delhi while courting Beijing, the Obama administration is now moving to inject a sense of urgency and momentum into US-India relations. But just as bilateral affairs seem to have acquired new dynamism, differences over Afghanistan and Iran threaten to undermine positive developments.
Author: Simon Tay, SIIA
Ambassador-At-Large Tommy Koh has written a comment which addresses several points in my book Asia Alone: The Dangerous Post-Crisis Divide from America.
Questions of leadership and engagement in Asia are live issues. New frameworks for cooperation are taking shape, with the US announcing it will join the East Asia Summit as well as host the second US-ASEAN Summit. Australian and Japanese proposals for a new community have been shelved. Read more »
Author: Joel Rathus, Adelaide University and Meiji University
In November of last year, President Barack Obama pledged that he would be a ‘Pacific president.’ While the audience in Suntory Hall may have wondered about what exactly that statement meant, few in attendance doubted the sincerity or conviction of the president. As relationships between the US, ASEAN and China have been re-drawn, especially since the latest series of ASEAN-hosted diplomatic meetings in Hanoi, the meaning of a Pacific president is starting to become clearer. Three sites of change in particular warrant special mention; the East Asia Summit, the South China Sea and the Korean Peninsula. In all three cases, the United States and ASEAN states are becoming closer, while China is finding itself distanced from the decision-making process. Read more »
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s upcoming collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next term, More Than Luck.
Ben Eltham – CPD Fellow – asks what really happened now that climate change bills are dead in the water on both sides of the Pacific.
Published in ABC’s The Drum Unleashed on 29 July 2010.
Who killed the climate bills?
John F. Kennedy, in the wake of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, once said that “victory has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan.”
Not so climate change legislation, which has now failed in both the US Congress and the Australian Senate. Read more »
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