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\"\"Monday was a public holiday across the country, providing Australians with some solemn space to reflect and give thanks for the contributions and sacrifices made by our defence force personnel. Lest we forget.<\/span><\/figure>\n

Onto this week\u2019s picks, Luhut Panjaitan, Indonesia\u2019s security minister, recently <\/span>announced a symposium<\/span><\/a> to investigate the atrocities that took place in 1965\u201366 as then-General Suharto seized power, when more than half a million Indonesians accused of being Communists were massacred. <\/span>The Economist<\/span><\/i> has run <\/span>an fine historical piece<\/span><\/a> on the event, and considers the significance of the Jokowi administration’s moves to reopen old wounds. <\/span>Human Rights Watch takes a look at<\/span><\/a> one of the symposium\u2019s key outcomes\u2014documenting the location of mass graves\u2014and how it has the propensity to incite anti-Communist sentiment, while <\/span>Natalie Sambhi and Nadia Bulkin sat down to discuss<\/span><\/a> Indonesia\u2019s violent history and its transformation to nationalistic democracy in the latest CIMSEC podcast (42 mins).<\/span><\/p>\n

This week in photography, <\/span>Foreign Policy <\/span><\/i>highlights <\/span>snaps of the US\u2013ROK military exercises<\/span><\/a> that caused concern in Pyongyang; and a few weeks back, <\/span>The Atlantic<\/span><\/i> surveyed Chernobyl <\/span>in advance of the 30 year<\/span><\/a> commemoration last Tuesday. <\/span><\/p>\n

The future of crime fighting was <\/span>revealed at China\u2019s Chongqing Hi-Tech Fair last week<\/span><\/a>\u2014and it won\u2019t be messing around with reading you your <\/span>Miranda warning<\/span><\/a>. <\/span>According to <\/span>The People\u2019s Daily<\/span><\/i><\/a>, the 1.49m AnBot \u2018will play an important role in enhancing the country\u2019s anti-terrorism and anti-riot measures\u2019 with a remote-controlled <\/span>cattle-prod-like taser<\/span><\/a>. And fight terror and crime it will\u2014unless the lawbreaker <\/span>ascends a flight of stairs<\/span><\/a>. Then the AnBot is in trouble.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hopefully this suggestion goes some way to soothing the near complete absence of art history here on <\/span>The Strategist<\/span><\/i>\u2026 One of Picasso\u2019s most well-known and contentious works<\/span> depicts the 1937 bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. <\/span>This <\/span>NYRB <\/span><\/i>piece<\/span><\/a> traces the war politics of the day, the painting of <\/span>Guernica <\/span><\/i>in 1939 and the art world politicking that followed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Game of Thrones, the hit show which draws together bloody combat and bloodier politics, was back on screens stateside this week (though that\u00a0seems <\/span>not to have stopped Australian pirates<\/span><\/a>). <\/span>The Economist<\/span><\/i>\u2019s 1943 Magazine has a <\/span>snappy piece<\/span><\/a> for finance fiends which claims that the twists and turns of life in the Seven Kingdoms can be traced to economic health and international fiscal policy. And still in Westeros, the University of Connecticut\u2019s Stephen Dyson has used the success he had teaching his students with<\/span> drawing parallels between Westeros and real life<\/span><\/a> to judge which beloved <\/span>GoT<\/span><\/i> characters most closely resemble the current line-up of presidential hopefuls<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Podcast<\/b><\/p>\n

China watchers shouldn’t miss the chance to catch up with the happenings at a recent ANU event where some <\/span>top thinkers from China and Australia<\/span><\/a> dived into ideas around Chinese power, influence, capabilities and intended contributions to international security (1 hour 40 mins).<\/span><\/p>\n

Videos<\/b><\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s 25th Prime Minister, the Hon John Howard OM AC, popped up in Queensland last week to deliver the Griffith Asia Institute\u2019s <\/span>inaugural Asia Lecture<\/span><\/a> (1 hour).<\/span><\/p>\n

Straight outta Syria and Iraq, these two videos to provide a glimpse into the fighting reality as Western military units battle Islamic State. A clip from <\/span>France 24<\/span><\/i> shows US special forces acting in an observation role<\/span><\/a> as they assist the Syrian Democratic Forces as they battle for the town of Shadadi in February (21 mins). (Check out <\/span>this analysis<\/span><\/a> of the kit carried by the US troops in the video.) On the other side of the coin, <\/span>VICE News<\/span><\/i> got their hands on <\/span>headcam footage<\/span><\/a> (7 mins) taken by an IS militant who died fighting the Peshmerga in northern Iraq in March. The vid \u2018shows chaos, panic, and the fighters retreating\u2019\u2014disarray we don\u2019t see in official IS propaganda.<\/span><\/p>\n

Charlie Rose\u2019s discussion with David Cohen\u2014the deputy director of the CIA\u2014is excellent viewing for the intel wonks out there. In the interview, Cohen touches on Syria, US intelligence collection practices and financial warfare. <\/span>Watch it here<\/span><\/a> (30 mins).<\/span><\/p>\n

Events<\/b><\/p>\n

Canberra: As part of its Power, Ethics and World Order Seminar Series, ANU\u2019s Coral Bell School will host Professor Toni Erskine on 9 May for a discussion on the international community’s obligation to protect vulnerable people when their own governments are incapable of doing so, and which body or institution should be expected to make the big calls about the R2P doctrine. <\/span>Register here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Melbourne: At the AIIA\u2019s Victoria headquarters, Tom Harley\u2014joint managing director of Dragoman Global\u2014will discuss how low oil prices will affect the future of Arabian Peninsula states, and how they might prepare for a \u2018post-oil\u2019 future. <\/span>Mark your diaries for 5 May<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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