Tweets aside, US North Korea strategy is working.

October 8, 2017

The escalating war of words between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un has fuelled concerns that the region is on a dangerous trajectory to a nuclear conflict that could have calamitous global consequences. Since 1947, nuclear scientists have maintained a ‘Doomsday Clock’ that symbolically measures how close the world is to a man-made global cataclysm, represented by midnight. The clock now shows two and a half minutes to midnight and ticking, the closest it has been to catastrophe since the US exploded the first hydrogen bomb in 1953. Read more

Opinion: U.S. Warship Sails Near Island Claimed by Beijing in South China Sea

May 24, 2017

“Australia is extremely reluctant to participate in freedom of navigation operations that involve flying over or sailing through the 12 nautical miles around the islands,” said Alan Dupont, a former Australian military intelligence official.

“The Australian government feels it would be provocative and upset China,” Mr. Dupont said. “It feels it would be counterproductive now that China has militarized the islands.”
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Exploring the future of the US-Australia relationship

May 3, 2017

Emma Alberici speaks to former Australian foreign minister and director of the Australia-China Relations Institute at the University of Technology Sydney Bob Carr, and Former US ambassador to Australia Jeffrey Bleich about the impact that the meeting between the two leaders will have on global affairs.

Alan Dupont is interviewed on the Australia-US relations in a special report within the broadcast by Michael Vincent.

Watch the full broadcast recording here.

When Turnbull Meets Trump

May 1, 2017

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s first face-to-face meeting with President Donald Trump is an opportunity to deliver some key messages about the role the United States should play globally and in Asia.

KEY FINDINGS
– Turnbull should emphasise the importance of a strong US leadership role in the world.
– He should make the case for the importance of acting in concert with allies and like-minded countries, especially Australia.
– Turnbull should shape the administration’s still unformed Asia policy by ensuring that the United States remains constructively engaged in the region.
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Turnbull to meet Trump in New York

May 1, 2017

Later this week Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will have his first face-to-face meeting with US President Donald Trump, just months after the two leaders had a tense phone conversation over the Manus Island refugee resettlement deal.

Alan Dupont speaks with Linda Lopresti at Radio National.

Listen to the full interview.

US attacks on Syria

April 8, 2017

When President Trump came to office, Syria’s Bashar al-Assad was seen as a useful ally in the fight against so-called Islamic State. All talk of regime change stopped.

Rarely has a foreign policy changed so radically, so quickly and been acted on so decisively. Read more

In Australia, a Call for Closer Ties to China Gains Support

March 16, 2017

Alan Dupont, a China analyst and fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy, said that Dr. FitzGerald’s speech, while well reasoned, reflected the views of a lifelong Sinophile who had overestimated Australia’s ability to affect China’s behavior. Read more

Korea’s Kim Baits Trump with Missile

February 18, 2017

North Korea’s provocative test launch of a new ballistic missile last weekend is a sobering reminder that Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program is one of the world’s most dangerous and intractable security issues. Read more