{"id":30679,"date":"2017-02-24T14:12:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T03:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=30679"},"modified":"2017-02-24T14:12:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T03:12:37","slug":"aspi-suggests-24feb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/aspi-suggests-24feb\/","title":{"rendered":"ASPI suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael Flynn\u2019s <\/span>recent fall from grace<\/span><\/a> opened the door for yet another General to join the Trump administration. Since the President announced that H.R. McMaster will take on the role of National Security Advisor, portraiture of the oft-described \u201csoldier-scholar\u201d has piled up. One effort from <\/span>POLITICO<\/span><\/i> paints a picture of a strong-willed intellectual<\/span><\/a>, a man of discipline, history, independence and ethics. On the back of that profile, George Packer for <\/span>The New Yorker <\/span><\/i>asks, \u2018<\/span>Can a free mind survive in Trump\u2019s White House?<\/span><\/a>\u2019 If you\u2019re short on time, McMaster was the topic of conversation for a snappy <\/a><\/span>5 on 45 <\/span><\/i>podcast from Brookings\u2019 Michael E. O\u2019Hanlon (5 mins). And to get a grip on how McMaster sees the world, catch up with <\/span>these four articles<\/span><\/a> he penned between 2008 and 2015 for IISS\u2019s <\/span>Survival <\/span><\/i>journal; this <\/span>NYT <\/span><\/i>op-ed on <\/span>war as political, human and uncertain<\/span><\/a>; and<\/span> this speech on future war<\/span><\/a> delivered to CSIS last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fans of <\/span>The Dish<\/span><\/i><\/a> (2000\u20132015) will have been pleased to see that Andrew Sullivan has started a new weekly \u2018experiment\u2019, which he says is in the \u2018the British magazine tradition of a weekly diary \u2014 on the news, but a little distant from it, personal as well as political, conversational more than formal.\u2019 Week one of the series \u2018on life in Trump\u2019s America\u2019 considered <\/span>lies<\/span><\/a>; week two, <\/span>Kremlin\u2013White House links<\/span><\/a>. <\/span>*bookmarked*<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

China\u2019s plan to revise its 1984 Maritime Traffic Safety Law\u2014essentially grabbing the pen and trying its hand at rewriting some of Asia\u2019s rules\u2014is ruffling feathers worldwide. The revision will<\/span> push for the following<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Foreign submersibles should travel on the surface, display national flags and report to Chinese maritime management administrations when they pass China’s water areas, the draft says. They should also get approval from the relevant administration to enter China’s internal waters and ports\u2019<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sichuan University\u2019s Yang Cuibai<\/span> has noted<\/span><\/a> that the draft will allow China to take the lead in creating legal precedents in its waters, which he understands to include both the East and South China seas. This week saw the Asian superpower<\/span> finish construction<\/span><\/a> of nearly two-dozen storage units on Subi, Mischief and Fiery Cross reefs, which are expected to house long-range surface-to-air missiles. At least the US still has the soft-power monopoly, right? Wrong. With China set to overtake the US by year\u2019s end on the metric of highest grossing country at the box office, it\u2019s worth listening to the<\/span> latest \u2018ChinaPower\u2019 podcast from CSIS<\/span><\/a>, where Bonnie Glaser and Stan Rosen take a look at the soft power of Chinese cinema. And one more for Sinophiles: check out<\/span> this excellent longread<\/span><\/a> on where Trump should focus his energies as he seeks to reset US\u2013China economic relations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, we know you\u2019re doing alright if you\u2019re tuning in for <\/span>ASPI suggests<\/span><\/i> each week, but if you\u2019ve ever thought you need to diversify your news intake, here are two handy tools to help you out. The first is a new initiative from <\/span>BuzzFeed <\/span><\/i>called \u2018<\/span>Outside Your Bubble<\/span><\/a>,\u2019 which will show readers of popular <\/span>BuzzFeed<\/span><\/i> news articles the opinions of others from Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and more, to help them burst free of their digital echo chambers. The second, from Alphabet\u2019s Jigsaw incubator, is called \u2018<\/span>Unfiltered.News<\/span><\/a>,\u2019 and uses Google News data to create a map of the most prominent topics and headlines from across the globe. Happy reading, strategists!<\/span><\/p>\n

Podcasts<\/b><\/p>\n

Latrobe Asia\u2019s podcast, <\/span>Asia Rising<\/span><\/i>, recently<\/span> sat down with former ONA boss Allan Gyngell<\/span><\/a> to talk Australian foreign policy and Canberra\u2019s efforts in Asia (16 mins). There\u2019s likely no-one better when it comes to extemporising on our external affairs\u2014he literally <\/span>[co-]wrote the book<\/span><\/a>, and recently put down <\/span>some thoughts on the Foreign Policy White Paper<\/span><\/a> process.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hosted in NYC rather than their usual studio high above Dupont Circle, <\/span>the latest installment from <\/span>Foreign Policy<\/span><\/i>\u2019s \u2018The E.R.\u2019 podcast series<\/span><\/a> (38 mins) seeks to sift fact from fiction to determine whether the USA\u00a0has actually become a reality show. <\/span><\/p>\n

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

Vowing to bring viewers \u2018the stories behind the research,\u2019 Brookings\u2019 Creative Lab YouTube channel recently kicked off a new series called <\/span>Unpacked<\/span><\/i>, where the think tank’s experts shed light on issues in the news cycle. Two recent offerings look at the US Department of Homeland Security\u2019s <\/span>plans to implement Trump\u2019s EO<\/span><\/a> (4 mins), and \u201c<\/span>sanctuary cities<\/span><\/a>\u201d (4 mins).<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Canberra (but also, across Australia): International Women\u2019s Day will be almost upon us on 8 March, and tickets to country-wide <\/span>events run by UN Women<\/span><\/a> are selling quickly. Each event will feature all-star panels of women excelling in their fields, as well as a delicious meal. What\u2019s not to like?! Make sure you register your interest now so you don\u2019t miss out.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brisbane: Brissie-based readers shouldn\u2019t miss their chance to get a handle on just how the Trump administration might make its mark on the Japan-Australia strategic relationship. Japanese Consul-General Hidehiro Hosaka will join the AIIA at the Queensland Multicultural Centre in Kangaroo Point <\/span>this coming Tuesday evening<\/span><\/a> to lay it all down.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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