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Australia will host a one-of-kind summit on emerging, critical and cyber technologies next year, a December 23 statement from the country’s Foreign Minister Marise Payne noted. “The Australian Government is supporting the establishment of the Sydney Dialogue, which will be held for the first time virtually in the second half of 2021. While significant international conferences and dialogues exist for traditional areas of security and economics, there is currently a gap for political leaders, industry experts, academics and civil society representatives to meet and discuss the most pressing issues around cyber and critical technology. This annual, high-level dialogue will fill that gap,” Payne’s statement said.
Jeff Smith specializes in South Asia as a research fellow in Heritage s Asian Studies Center. Leaders pose for a picture before a Quad Indo-Pacific meeting on October 6, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. Anadolu Agency / Contributor / Getty Images
Key Takeaways
If the U.S. is indeed planning to abandon the Indo-Pacific without a compelling strategic rationale, it would represent a strategic blunder.
The intellectual architect of the contemporary Indo-Pacific concept was Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
A reversion back to the Asia-Pacific with no compelling strategic rationale would represent a grave miscalculation.
Among the Democratic front-runners for president, Joe Biden was seen as boasting arguably the longest foreign policy resume and most centrist disposition. Just over a month after the election, however, a matter of nomenclature has some in the community of experts watching the Indo-Pacific sounding the alarm bells.
Can UK draw in India to boost its Asia-Pacific strategy?
By Gao Jian Source: Global Times Published: 2020/12/21 20:58:40
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks at the House of Commons in London, Britain, on Oct 29, 2019. File photo:Xinhua
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and his Indian counterpart, Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, met in New Delhi recently. Reports show that India has accepted British Prime Minister Boris Johnson s invitation for the G7 summit to be held in the UK next year. Also, the UK will dispatch its aircraft carrier the HMS Queen Elizabeth and its escort fleet to the Indo-Pacific next year. Johnson will also make his first visit to India in January. It seems that ties between the two sides are warming sharply.
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