There's another one as well: alliance abandonment. Google can give a quick explanation of that one too.

Yes. #India #China #Asia

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He's made that point quite regularly since he took that job. For good reasons.

What Velina Tchakarova says:

I'll take this a step further. It would be useful for the US to do more in the Indian Ocean & for India to do more in the Pacific. That can be done through greater coordination & respect for US leadership in the Pacific & Indian leadership in the Indian Ocean.

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It's about tech

Plenty of Australia-relevant defence content in the US-Japan Joint Leaders' Statement, particularly with respect to defence industrial and technological federation/integration and operationalising collective deterrence. A thread 🧵🧵🧵

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Amb. Rudd on the need to bolster deterrence in the Indo-Pacific.

He says 'integrated' & I prefer 'collective' but it matters little. The point is like-minded countries should band together to help prevent a catastrophic war.

'When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.'

-- Isaac Asimov

It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit.

Excellent. Well done, Beacon.

The Economist: 'Reducing Western influence at international institutions is a goal China and many others embrace. But the details soon get tricky. China is not going to welcome India permanently on to the un Security Council.'
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If in our thinking Southeast Asia is indeed 'the new center of gravity,' then we in the US have an attraction problem.

Great thread by Zack Cooper:

As I, Ralph A. Cossa & many others point out in 'The World After Taiwan's Fall,' that world isn't pretty & should be avoided at all cost.
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FBI chief warns of potential 'coordinated attack' in U.S. 'akin to the ISIS-K attack we saw at the Russia Concert Hall' massacre trib.al/5gcEAwz

India is a replacement for China, sometime in the near future, Taiwan FM Wu on Semi conductors manufacturing

DPRK's Choe Ryong Hae, via Xinhua: 'Under the strategic guidance of General Secretary Kim and General Secretary Xi, DPRK-China friendly relations have entered a new era, which strongly demonstrates the vitality and unbreakability of bilateral relations.'
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UPDATE: China says the PH-US Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) won't 'move them a bit' from their determination to preserve their territorial sovereignty in the South China Sea

The Chinese Embassy in Manila made this remark in response to US President Joe Biden's reiteration that any…

President Joe Biden has added more Chinese companies and individuals to an export blacklist than any US administration trib.al/wxJTvM2