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If you missed\u00a0last night’s\u00a0ASPI event <\/a>‘Australia and Indonesia: getting back on track’, Felicity Norman has a cracking rundown of the main themes on New Mandala<\/em>\u00a0here\u00a0<\/a>(video of the event to follow shortly).\u00a0Australia isn’t the only country recalibrating its relations with Indonesia; over on The Diplomat<\/em>, CFR’s Joshua Kurlantzick considers<\/a>\u00a0how Jokowi’s upcoming trip to the American capital\u00a0could reset US\u2013Indonesia ties.<\/p>\n

Turning to other\u00a0emerging powers in Asia, the National Bureau of Asian Research has canvassed views from China<\/a>, Indonesia<\/a>\u00a0and India<\/a>\u00a0on the impact of low oil prices on each country’s economy, and environmental and energy security. All three briefs provide largely positive perspectives on falling oil prices: governments can\u00a0reform price regimes for oil and gas (including Indonesia’s fuel subsidy system), lower energy import bills and explore new initiatives for cooperation within ASEAN and SAARC.<\/p>\n

Is the Australian alliance with the US too close for comfort? In a piece that some Canberra-types will find provocative, former Australian Ambassador to Indonesia John McCarthy argues<\/a>\u00a0that we’ve now become ‘an American satrap’ and that, if we don’t retain independence of thought and action, the alliance could be a liability in future. Keep reading here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Intel wonks, former Deputy Director of the CIA\u00a0Michael Morell has released a book<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0offers an insider’s perspective of DC’s intelligence community during 9\/11, the Arab Spring, the Snowden leaks, and the rise of ISIS.\u00a0Morell\u00a0took\u00a0aim at the politicians and policymakers who he believes politicised the efforts of US intelligence agencies, from drone strikes to interrogation techniques. Naming Senator Dianne Feinstein<\/a> as bearing ‘significant responsibility’ for the flaws in the\u00a0torture report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which, Morell states, makes ‘errors that even a smart high school student would not make’, has ruffled a few feathers in DC.\u00a0Feinstein has since responded that Morell’s charges were false, and said that it was ‘unsurprising’ that his response would be as such, considering that\u00a0his coauthor helped two other ex-CIA officials attempt to justify the agency’s ‘failings’.<\/p>\n

Canadian-Ukrainian journalist Chrystia Freeland has penned a personal essay<\/a> for Brookings that tracks how the ‘nightmare’ that Russia’s Vladimir Putin inflicted upon Ukraine unfolded. She details how Putin’s revisionist version of Soviet history and\u00a0the political aspirations of the Ukrainian population collided, resulting in the violence today.<\/p>\n

It’s worth reading\u00a0the full testimony<\/a> of CSIS’ senior advisor for Asia and China expert Bonnie Glaser before\u00a0the US\u2013China Economic and Security Review Commission\u00a0for her in-depth take on\u00a0China’s strategy toward\u00a0the South China Sea and Southeast Asia’s response. That said, there’s not much good news between the pages: she finds it\u00a0likelier that China will conclude a Code of Conduct upon completion of its land reclamation activities than at present, and\u00a0any such agreement\u00a0won’t be legally binding. Glaser’s testimony ends by urging\u00a0Congress to send more powerful signals of American concern about Chinese behaviour to the executive and to the rest of the world.<\/p>\n

Over on Defense One<\/a><\/em>, David Sterman argues that the maritime arena will join the land as a battleground for future counterinsurgency warfare. He looks at examples of maritime insurgency, such as al Qaeda\u2019s unpleasant track record<\/a>, and questions whether the US and its allies are prepared to deal with such threats. For more, check out this recently published Congressional Research Service backgrounder\u00a0<\/a>on Navy irregular warfare and counterterrorism operations.<\/p>\n

Now to this week’s tech picks.\u00a0First, Chinese web services company Baidu claims to have built a supercomputer<\/a> which gives software the ability to better understand speech, images and written language. A\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0released by Baidu earlier this week states that the supercomputer\u2014named Minwa\u2014has beaten Google’s previous records in the area with\u00a0a 31% improvement. Second, want to play a role in tracking and imaging traveling objects in our solar system? DARPA is inviting the public<\/a> to brainstorm ideas demonstrating the potential for high-res imaging of objects\u00a0orbiting Earth.<\/p>\n

And finally, what role might the Prince of Wales play <\/a>in improving the availability of alternative herbal medicines and the instigation of a badger cull in the UK? The answer is not a big one, as what have become known as Prince Charles’\u00a0‘black spider memos’ have been released to the public. The memos, named for Charles’ spidery hand-writing, detail the first-in-line’s\u00a0lobbying of then-Prime Minister Tony Blair over an extremely narrow set of personal interests, including stopping illegal fishing of the Patagonian toothfish to preserve the UK’s albatrosses, and replacing the Lynx<\/em> military helicopters.<\/p>\n

Podcast<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last week, the Lowy Institute held New Voices 2015\u00a0which featured up-and-coming academics, think tankers and policymakers who grappled with\u00a0Asia’s geopolitics, maritime disputes, US\u2013China strategic competition, Japan\u2013China ties, regional order and Australia’s role. Here’s the podcast<\/a>\u00a0recorded after the event featuring New Voices participants Evan Laksmana (CSIS Jakarta), Andrew Kwon (Alliance 21) interviewed by\u00a0Natalie Sambhi on those issues (37mins).<\/p>\n

Video<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chief of Army Lieutenant David Morrison sat down with ABC’s Leigh Sales in one of his final interviews<\/a> in the job. They discuss fighting ISIS and its ideology, the long-term impacts of military service on mental health, the ANZAC narrative and the fallout from his now infamous ‘zero tolerance’ YouTube clip<\/a>\u00a0(9mins).<\/p>\n

Terrorism researchers, watch Peter Bergen, J.M. Berger and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross testify <\/a>at a hearing on the role of social media in terrorist organisation recruitment and what the US government should do to counter online messages. With the video spanning two hours, we recommend you use\u00a0the transcript tool\u00a0to\u00a0skip\u00a0to your favourite parts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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