Articles by: Peter Van Ness

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Lily-pad power games

Might Australia follow Indonesia's response to US-China manoeuvres? It is virtually impossible to identify cause and effect, or who is to blame, but the two superpowers of the Asia- Pacific, the United States and China, are shifting gears to a confrontational rather than cooperative strategy in their relations in the region. This is not a good thing: it is bad for the United States, bad for China, and even worse for the other countries, including…