Asian-Pacific region
Dangerous Escalations: Biden’s Indo-Pacific Legacy
When Joe Biden, a key architect of the Obama administration’s “Asia Pivot” policy, became the US president in 2020 and introduced his Indo-Pacific Strategy in February 2022, his apparent objective was to make the region more “peaceful” and manage its…
Summary and Results of the Japan-Australia Format 2+2 Meeting
The 11th Format 2+2 meeting was held in Queenscliff, Victoria on 5 September. As a reminder, this type of event was established in 2007. The meeting was attended by the country's foreign and defence ministers Penny Wong and Richard Marles…
Australia’s policy in Oceania: militarisation and arrogance
In the spring of 2024, the Australian Government adopted the first National Defence Strategy in its history. It is designed to identify completely new approaches to ‘protecting the country and its interests’. Over the past decade, the country has been aggressively increasing military construction and has now officially consolidated this process in its course of development. How are Australian military and political ambitions impacting the South Pacific region?
