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Commentary
US remains the top power in Asia but for how long, as Trump erodes vital alliances?
Michael Fullilove and Hervé Lemahieu say China is rapidly gaining on the US as an Asian regional power, and the Trump administration’s mismanagement of trade and diplomatic ties…
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Commentary
Trump's goal is regime change
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review.Lydia Khalil
![Australia must shed self-doubt over its place in the new Asia](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/research_listing/public/Aus%20op-ed-min.jpg?itok=2gbDxHWh)
Commentary
Australia must shed self-doubt over its place in the new Asia
Originally published in The Australian on 9 May 2018.
Michael Fullilove , Hervé Lemahieu
![Chinese students being taught 'us and them' brand of diplomacy](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/research_listing/public/2022-06/Lowy%20default.png?h=64713994&itok=Cmh1JhID)
Commentary
Chinese students being taught 'us and them' brand of diplomacy
Originally published on ABC Online. Merriden Varrall
![Reserve judgment on 'mission accomplished' in Syria](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/research_listing/public/2022-06/Lowy%20default.png?h=64713994&itok=Cmh1JhID)
Commentary
Reserve judgment on 'mission accomplished' in Syria
Originally published in Channel NewsAsia.Daniel Flitton
![All Western guns blazing not as easy as advocates make out](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/research_listing/public/2022-06/Lowy%20default.png?h=64713994&itok=Cmh1JhID)
Commentary
All Western guns blazing not as easy as advocates make out
Originally published in The Australian. Rodger Shanahan
![The collapse of the “Chinese collapse” theory](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/research_listing/public/2022-06/Lowy%20default.png?h=64713994&itok=Cmh1JhID)
Commentary
The collapse of the “Chinese collapse” theory
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review on 9 April 2018.
Richard McGregor
![The other North Korea question: How important is the Korean Peninsula to the US?](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/research_listing/public/dmz5.jpg?itok=liS0WMVY)
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The other North Korea question: How important is the Korean Peninsula to the US?
Historians may come to see North Korea’s nuclear-armed ballistic missiles as the trigger that unravels America’s strategic leadership of Asia.
Originally published in the…
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