The leaders of the US, Australia, India and Japan have agreed to deliver one billion doses of coronavirus vaccine to much of Asia by the end of 2022. The joint commitment was made following the first leaders meeting of the so-called Quad - a group formed in 2007. The vaccines - expected
Australia has been urged to seize a leadership role in promoting health security across the Indo-Pacific, with analysts highlighting efforts by China and Russia to increase their regional influence through “vaccine diplomacy”. Access to Covid-19 vaccines is likely to be one of the main items on the agenda when Scott Morrison joins a virtual meeting with the US president, Joe Biden, and the prime ministers of Japan and India on Saturday morning.
Myanmar’s military might be “hated” but it needs to be part of the solution to the country’s post-coup crisis, or the nation could become another Libya or Iraq. That is the view of Singapore’s former foreign minister George Yeo, who warned on Wednesday (March 10) that dissolving the Tatmadaw, as Myanmar’s military is known, would destabilise the Southeast Asian country.
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