{"id":14326,"date":"2014-06-13T14:30:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T04:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=14326"},"modified":"2014-06-16T19:13:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T09:13:07","slug":"aspi-suggests-13jun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/aspi-suggests-13jun\/","title":{"rendered":"ASPI suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Picture-18.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14340\" title=\"TNI Army soldiers being reminded to remain neutral during this year's presidential election.\" alt=\"TNI Army soldiers being reminded to remain neutral during this year's presidential election.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Picture-18.png\" width=\"696\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Picture-18.png 696w, https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Picture-18-205x101.png 205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a>For this week\u2019s final instalment of suggests from Washington DC, I\u2019ve rounded up a mix of expertise from both sides of the pond.<\/p>\n<p>Kicking off this week is a <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> piece by CNAS&#8217; Ely Ratner on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB30001424052702304091204579615762014638746\" target=\"_blank\">how to counter Chinese aggression<\/a>\u00a0in the South China Sea. More specifically, he argues that there are policy steps the US can take in the near future. Those steps include providing regional partners with greater maritime domain awareness as well as reversing a previous position and declaring China&#8217;s occupation of the Scarborough Shoal illegal.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Also from CNAS, you can follow the highlights from its eighth annual conference on national security on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23CNAS2014&amp;src=hash\" target=\"_blank\">#CNAS2014<\/a>\u00a0which covered topics like US leadership, Syria, China&#8217;s rise, robotics and veterans affairs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnas.org\/CNAS2014\/speakers\" target=\"_blank\">Speakers<\/a> included Congressman Paul Ryan and National Security Adviser Susan Rise. Here are a few snippets:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Amb Rice: on DPRK, US expects to focus more on trilat coop with Japan and RoK <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CNAS2014?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CNAS2014<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNASdc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CNASdc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; S. Kleine-Ahlbrandt (@ska_kongshan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ska_kongshan\/status\/476796985681653761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CNAS2014?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CNAS2014<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VJS_Policy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@VJS_Policy<\/a> makes an interesting point: given the structural problems of rising powers, Sino-US relations are actually OK.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dandrezner\/status\/476787764445609984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ryan supports refueling the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USNavy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@USNavy<\/a> aircraft carrier George Washington, keeping carrier in Japan. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CNAS2014?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CNAS2014<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marcus Weisgerber (@MarcusReports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarcusReports\/status\/476729374574518272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Turning now to Southeast Asia and Indonesia&#8217;s upcoming presidential elections on 9 July, Evan Laksmana <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2014\/06\/11\/beyond-defense-modernization.html\" target=\"_blank\">analyses Jokowi&#8217;s defence policy platform<\/a>. He says Indonesia&#8217;s next president should look beyond just modernising TNI (pictured above):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bottom line is that defense transformation is not about fulfilling material needs. It is about institutional and paradigmatic shifts on how the military views and structures itself, educates and trains its members, as well as how it equips itself and plans to fight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>North Korea has unexpectedly agreed to launch a reinvestigation into the abduction of Japanese citizens during the Cold War. On <em>East Asia Forum<\/em>, Owen Lindsay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastasiaforum.org\/2014\/06\/11\/high-hurdles-for-japan-and-north-korea-to-resolve-the-abduction-issue\/\" target=\"_blank\">writes<\/a> that, although considered to be a success on Japanese PM Shinzo Abe&#8217;s behalf, the reinvestigation&#8217;s findings might not bring any closure to the matter due to public and political furore over specific cases.<\/p>\n<p><em>War on The Rocks<\/em>\u00a0has partnered with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.start.umd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism<\/a>\u00a0(START) to publish\u00a0a series of infographics based on data from their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.start.umd.edu\/gtd\/\" target=\"_blank\">Global Terrorism Database<\/a>\u00a0and related START projects. This week&#8217;s shows\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/warontherocks.com\/2014\/06\/infographic-where-terrorists-attacked-in-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">trends in global terrorism activity<\/a>\u00a0which, also highlighted in the comments thread, is not &#8216;uniformly global&#8217;. In our region, it&#8217;s concentrated in the Philippines and Southern Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>This week we tip our hat to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.anu.edu.au\/2014\/06\/09\/queens-birthday-honours-for-anu-academics\/\" target=\"_blank\">ANU&#8217;s Professors Hugh White and Desmond Ball<\/a> who were included in this year&#8217;s Queen&#8217;s Birthday Order of Australia Honours for their individual contributions to Australian strategic and defence thinking. Read their citations <a href=\"http:\/\/news.anu.edu.au\/2014\/06\/09\/queens-birthday-honours-for-anu-academics\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. We also offer our congratulations to the Royal Australian Navy on becoming the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.navy.gov.au\/en\/Jun2014\/Fleet\/1125\/Navy-becomes-largest-Australian-organisation-to-achieve-White-Ribbon-Accreditation.htm#.U5p0mfm1ZNN\" target=\"_blank\">largest Australian organisation to achieve White Ribbon accreditation<\/a>, given to workplaces that demonstrate a culture of zero tolerance of men&#8217;s violence against women.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week CSIS released a new report\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/csis.org\/publication\/power-and-order-asia\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Power and Order in Asia\u2019<\/a>\u00a0that polled regional strategy elites on Asia Pacific economic growth and community building and their implications for US policy. Among many things, the report found there was broad support for the rebalance but concern about implementation, and that regional economic crises were the greatest threat to national security. For the video and audio of the related panel discussion, see <a href=\"http:\/\/csis.org\/event\/power-and-order-asia-survey-regional-expectations\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Podcast<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Linking back to an earlier item on terrorism, Loopcast hosted an interesting discussion between J.M. Berger and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theloopcast.com\/e\/al-qaedas-evolution-a-debate-between-jm-berger-and-daveed-gartenstein-ross\/\">the evolution of al-Qaeda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Natalie Sambhi is an analyst at ASPI and editor of\u00a0<\/em>The Strategist<em>, and has recently completed a visiting fellowship at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS)<\/em><em>. Image courtesy of Twitter user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TNI_AD\/status\/475988211341086721\" target=\"_blank\">TNI_AD<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this week\u2019s final instalment of suggests from Washington DC, I\u2019ve rounded up a mix of expertise from both sides of the pond. 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