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\"Tyrion<\/a><\/figure>\n

Update: ICYMI Henry Kissinger penned a WSJ<\/em> op-ed back in mid-October entitled, ‘A path out of the Middle East collapse’<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Headlining the first Suggests for November is an Intelligence Squared debate on the topic ‘Containment is not enough: ISIS must be defeated’<\/a>, featuring Mich\u00e8le Flournoy and Philip Zelikow arguing for the proposition, and Anne-Marie Slaughter and Dov Zakheim against. Bringing to bear their collective experiences both in policymaking and research, the speakers traded blows on whether ISIS should be allowed to keep territory or whether America should\u00a0lead a ‘coalition’ (or as Zakheim cynically notes, ‘coalition means if the Brits want to play’) to roll them back. Recorded in August, it’s\u00a0worth listening\/watching for the big picture policy vs strategy\u00a0arguments and for the Q&A in which David Petraeus, sitting as a member of the audience, corrects\u00a0Slaughter’s criticism\u00a0of the Iraq Surge (full transcript of the event here<\/a>). Food for thought for\u00a0Australia, with its history as a coalition partner.<\/p>\n

Heading now to the Asia Pacific: in a move that seemed to come out of nowhere, China’s Xi Jinping and Taiwan’s Ma Ying-jeou are set to meet in Singapore this weekend<\/a>. It’ll be the first time leaders of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) have met since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.\u00a0Representatives from both sides have stressed that no agreements will be signed nor joint statements released, however the meeting is\u00a0seen by Taiwan as an opportunity to ‘consolidate cross-strait peace’<\/a>. Xi and Ma will hold a 20-minute private meeting before a press conference and dinner. Against a backdrop of tension with China, the White House has expressed cautious optimism about the meeting though welcomes\u00a0moves to reduce tensions<\/a>. For more on the visit, check out this NBR primer<\/a> and this rundown by The Economist<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

As part of\u00a0his first trip\u00a0overseas, Malcolm Turnbull will stop off in\u00a0Jakarta next week<\/a> to meet his counterpart Joko Widodo aka Jokowi. Economics and trade set to dominate the agenda. For a heads up on how Indonesia’s economy has fared in Jokowi’s hands, read Matthew Busch’s even-handed assessment over on Lowy’s Interpreter<\/em><\/a>. On a more controversial note in Indonesia’s history, after Jokowi’s recent trip to the US, Margaret Scott on the New York Review of Books<\/em> revisits allegations of the CIA’s links to the events of\u00a01965 and 1966<\/a>\u00a0in which hundreds of thousands of suspected Communists in the country were killed in systematic fashion.<\/p>\n

Also in the region,\u00a0Myanmar’s general election is this Sunday 8 November\u2014the country’s first since the military junta transitioned to a ‘civilian’ government in 2011. All eyes are on leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), Aung San Suu Kyi. For a rundown\u00a0of\u00a0the major players and a forecast of what will happen if\u00a0Suu Kyi’s party wins, check out this BBC feature<\/a>. Gateway House’s Rajiv Bhatia delves more deeply into why Myanmar’s vote matters<\/a>, including for international partners like India and the US which, in his view, appears to be maintaining some distance from the NLD.\u00a0Meanwhile, Damien Kingsbury expresses skepticism about the process, arguing on The Drum<\/em> that it might produce unpalatable results<\/a>. Lastly, CSIS’ Phuong Nguyen grapples with the obvious question: what is the military’s role in all of this?<\/a><\/p>\n

On the health and bio security front, International Crisis Group (ICG) has brought the goods with two new reports. The first covers\u00a0the politics behind the Ebola crisis which explores, among other things, the time lag in reaction between West African States<\/a> and the second explores why Pakistan has remains, as ICG put it, the ‘greatest impediment to a polio-free world’<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the EU, it’s been a decade since Angela Merkel became German Chancellor, making her one of the most powerful leaders (and women) in the world. This week The Economist<\/em> looks at why, despite weathering the Eurozone crisis and successfully coralling Europe into imposing sanctions on Putin, she’s facing her greatest challenge yet<\/a>\u2014just when the region needs her most. Also in the neighbourhood, John Gower of Carnegie Endowment explains why it’s time for the UK to have\u00a0a strategic review of its nuclear weapons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Canada’s new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled a gender-equal and diverse cabinet this week<\/a>. Among the portfolio-holders is Lieutenant Colonel\u00a0(rtd) Harjit Singh Sajjan, a Sikh immigrant from India and the first from the religion to command a Canadian army regiment. First\u00a0working\u00a0as a police officer in Vancouver for 11 years<\/a>, Sajjan deployed with the army to\u00a0Bosnia and three times to Afghanistan\u2014an experience that was ‘humbling’, he says<\/a>. Lastly, there’s potential synergy between Canada and Australia in\u00a0the area of Women, Peace and Security. Sajjan’s position on inclusion is clear<\/a>:\u00a0‘There is no debate at all for women not being in combat. I consider Canadian forces probably one of the most welcoming organizations in Canada.’ Watch this space.<\/p>\n

Lastly, is fiction useful for the strategist? In a Scholar’s Stage<\/em> post, T. Greer\u00a0explores the limits of\u00a0the (not so original) practice of using\u00a0fictional works like Game of Thrones<\/em> to teach\u00a0strategy<\/a>. For a rebuttal, check out Diane Mayne’s thoughts over on The Bridge<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

Shifting gears to the Baltics, US Ambassador to Lithuania Deborah McCarthy discusses Russia’s information war in Baltic states and their concerns about Moscow’s aggression<\/a>. That’s in\u00a0the latest Smart Women Smart Power podcast\u00a0by CSIS (30mins).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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