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Militarization of the South Pacific: the Sino-Australian Rising Rivalry in the Region

17:22 08.09.2022 Artyom Garin

Militarization of the South Pacific: the Sino-Australian Rising Rivalry in the Region

Photo: Flickr.com, U.S. Indo-Pacific CommandThe South Pacific has become one of the critical areas of competition between Australia and China. Nowadays, Canberra tries to sign a security deal with Papua New Guinea (PNG), the largest and most populous country in Oceania. Such ambitions were a response to the PRC's intensified …

Australian Election 2022: What to Expect from Labor After Morrison's Militarism?

11:58 30.05.2022 Elizaveta Antonova , Artyom Garin

Australian Election 2022: What to Expect from Labor After Morrison's Militarism?

Australia is a continent-state with a unique geostrategic position. Canberra's foreign policy is increasingly becoming the subject of discussions in the dual space of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. In recent years, Australia has gained the image of an antagonist country towards the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which is …

AUKUS Paradox and Australia’s Foreign Policy Fiasco in the South Pacific before the Upcoming Elections

10:48 26.04.2022 Elizaveta Antonova

AUKUS Paradox and Australia’s Foreign Policy Fiasco in the South Pacific before the Upcoming Elections

The world is experiencing a strong political, economic, defence and social transformation. It has also affected the Asia-Pacific and Oceania. While Australia, the U.S. and the United Kingdom are trying to expand their collaboration under the AUKUS alliance, the PRC has made significant progress in strengthening ties with the Solomon …

Infrastructure for Resilient Island States: Raising Climate Ambitions

11:41 01.11.2021 Elizaveta Antonova

Infrastructure for Resilient Island States: Raising Climate Ambitions

Image:UNCTADThe COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference will be held from October 31 to November 12. However, it's already known that India, Australia, and the UK are planning to launch a new «Infrastructure for Resilient Island States» (IRIS) initiative.Artyom Garin, Research Associate of the Center for Southeast Asia, Australia and …

AUKUS: A New Strategic Challenge for Indo-Pacific

16:57 22.09.2021 Elizaveta Antonova

AUKUS: A New Strategic Challenge for Indo-Pacific

Picture:news.cgtn.comThe leaders of the United States, the UK, and Australia — Joe Biden, Boris Johnson, and Scott Morrison — made a joint statement on deepening defenсe and technological ties in the dual space of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The parties have established a trilateral security partnership — AUKUS. As …

Quad Infrastructure Diplomacy: An Attempt to Resist the Belt and Road Initiative

13:03 12.07.2021 Artyom Garin

Quad Infrastructure Diplomacy: An Attempt to Resist the Belt and Road Initiative

Over the years, the competition between the great powers in the dual space of the Indian and Pacific Oceans has been rapidly increasing. In the face of the aggravation of relations between the PRC and the United States, the defence dimension of the rivalry between the two contenders for global …

Japan and Australia: what the Reciprocal Access Agreement is all about

12:42 08.12.2020 Oleg Paramonov

Japan and Australia: what the Reciprocal Access Agreement is all about

During his brief visit to Japan in mid-November, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his Japanese counterpart Yoshihide Suga announced a plan to strengthen defense cooperation between their two countries.In keeping with the Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA), Australia and Japan will provide their territories for joint measures of a defense …

Indo-Pacific Partnership: «who against»

15:50 18.07.2020 Vladimir Petrovsky

Indo-Pacific Partnership: «who against»

An American initiative known as Indo-Pacific Partnership which was put forward at the end of 2017, has been the subject of heated discussions of late. Unlike before, when it was deemed a general idea, now, it appears that the Trump administration has resolved to provide it with a specific meaning.Testifying …

Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Australia amid the rising tide of secessionism in the region

10:36 02.07.2020 Vladislav Gulevich

Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Australia amid the rising tide of secessionism in the region

Secessionist tendencies in Indonesia’s province of West Papua have recently been attracting a great deal of attention from experts and human rights activists.The main reason for the international criticism of the Indonesian authorities is human rights violations and the suppression of the fundamental freedoms of the indigenous people of West …

Russia’s Fedor Konyukhov yields new world records

9:26 30.05.2019 Yuri Nemtsev

Russia’s Fedor Konyukhov yields new world records

Photos by Oskar KonyukhovRussian traveler, artist and writer Fedor Konyukhov has completed an expedition in the course of which he sailed a row boat across the South Pacific from New Zealand to South America’s Cape Horn. He has thus covered the final part of the journey he began in 2014, …

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