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Refugee from Arizona/ DC. Perspectives from Australia's Indian Ocean Capital of Perth

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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Musings on Western Australia-Japan from yesterday's Business News. www.businessnews.com.au/article/From...
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From trade to strategic partnership: Western Australia’s role in the next 50 years of Australia-Japan relations
Few international relationships have been as important to the development of Western Australia’s economy as its relationship with Japan. In the years immediately following the end of World War
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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Reflecting on the passing of former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji today, I am not sure what has changed more in the quarter of a century plus since this picture was taken, my assumptions about China or the color of my hair.
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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
After a highly successful Nikkei Asia Forum close to Asia here in Perth in April, I am excited to be again speaking at the next iteration of this important discussion down in the isolated corner of Australia in Sydney in a few weeks. Free to join online. nikkeiforum.com/syd/26/
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Perth USAsia Centre @perthusasia.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
🌏 How well do you understand the region shaping Australia's future? Gain practical insights into the Indo-Pacific with our expert-led online course. 📅 Starts 20 July 💻 100% online | 8 weeks ⏳ Enrolments close soon. 🔗 bit.ly/3NFaWoA #IndoPacific #Geopolitics
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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Great to be part of this Panel on ASEAN at the 2026 Raisina Dialouge youtu.be/Ua4HQjtpOvo?...
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Experts Highlight ASEAN's Challenges Amid Regional Tensions | Raisina Dialogue 2026 | N18G
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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Timely discussion with the always insightful Sandeep Unnithan during my visit to Delhi this week. What the US-Iran Conflict Means for the World youtu.be/k2XtAQfuzlI?...
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What the US-Iran Conflict Means for the World
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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Great to see @perthusasia.bsky.social Associate Research Fellow Aaron Magunna in Brisbane yesterday. Delighted to release his most recent report on the future of Australia Japan Energy Partnership in advance of our 9th Annual Japan Symposium tomorrow: perthusasia.edu.au/research-and...
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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I have been off socials for two glorious months of holiday filled with family, swimming, camping, grandchildren, and summer in Perth. As a way of dipping my toes back into the world, I am attaching a few of my musings about the world from my flurry of travel late last year: 1/2
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Horizons Interview | Gordon Flake: The Asia-Pacific Century: Ready to Go - Australian viewpoint
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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
A bit late in sharing this, but was recently honoured to join the "Why Should We Care About the Indo-Pacific?" Podcast for a yarn. Why Should We Care if South Korea Finally Has a New President? | with Go... youtu.be/FP4e-YTZzcE?...
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Why Should We Care if South Korea Finally Has a New President? | with Gordon Flake
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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Very insigthful article by former KIEP President Dr. Kim Heungchong outlining the solid present and essential future of Australia-Korea Cooperation. [여의도포럼] 한국과 호주, 새로운 발전 모색할 때 www.kmib.co.kr/article/view...
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[여의도포럼] 한국과 호주, 새로운 발전 모색할 때
6·25전쟁 참전해 도왔던 호주산업화의 핵심 파트너로 기여이제는 단순 협력모델 벗어나글로벌 공급망 공유하는 단계중국 편중 리스크 분산하고방산기업 공동
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
What have Australia and India achieved since concluding the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership deal in 2020? Lisa Singh and I take a look... www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
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Five years is a long time in Australia-India relations, but there is still more to do
A stocktake of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
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Robert Ward @robertalanward.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Asia a clear focus of Trump’s tariffs—for many they’re swingeing, for some they’re brutal, eg Vietnam 46%. Difficult to think of a policy that wld have been better calibrated to drive swathes of the region closer into China’s orbit. US strategic position in Asia is now significantly weaker. FT chart
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Scott Watkins @dr.scottwatkins.me · 31/03/2025
It was an honour to meet the Republic of Korea's Ambassador to Australia, His Excellency Admiral (Retd) Seungseob Sim, who generously hosted the Australia-Korea Foundation Board at his Residence in Canberra last week.
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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
@japarker29.bsky.social Rockstar!
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Australian Strategic Policy Institute @aspi-org.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
'Chinese President Xi Jinping’s approach is clear: he’d rather pressure Taiwan into submission over time than launch an all-out invasion,' writes @nathanattrill.bsky.social.
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To counter China’s coercion of Taiwan, we must track it better | The Strategist
The threat of a Chinese military invasion of Taiwan dominates global discussion about the Taiwan Strait. Far less attention is paid to what is already happening—Beijing is slowly squeezing Taiwan into...
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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Honoured to be appointed to serve on the Australia-Korea Foundation Board and look forward to working toward an even stronger Australia-Korea relationship. www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/pen...
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Perth USAsia Centre @perthusasia.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
We are delighted to announce that CEO Professor @lgflake.bsky.social has been appointed as a new Board Member of the Australia-Korea Foundation (AKF). 🇦🇺🇰🇷 📄 Media release from Senator the Hon Penny Wong here: www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/pen...
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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The world may be on fire, but mangoes still ripen in thier own time. Today was the day for these three from a tree my dear wife grew from seed.
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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
It has been just over a week since I was honoured to speak at the Munich Security Conference on a APRI Armenia-ORF organized panel on "Minilateralism and Multilateralism: the Shift from Global Alliances to Targeted Partnerships." It is hard to overstate how much has changed in that week. #MSC2025
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Latika M Bourke @latikambourke.com · 17/02/2025
What was that JD Vance speech at Munich all about? Chinese-style Wolf Warrior Diplomacy, says Prof. Gordon Flake, designed to please the MAGA base by insulting allies overseas. My latest yarn for The Nightly: latika.me/JDWolfWarrior
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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Excellent panel at #MSC2025. No one better than @PerthUSAsia Board Member Dr. Lynn Kuok to moderate a discussion with Korean and Japanese Foreign Ministers, New Zealand Defence Minister & Deputy SecGen of NATO. The Indo-Pacific has interest in the Euro-Atlantic and vice versa
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Perth USAsia Centre @perthusasia.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
📝 This piece dives into China’s growing presence in the furthest reaches of the Indian Ocean, and identifies practical ways Australia and India can work together. 🔗 Published in a compendium of works by Australia India Institute, you can now read here >> perthusasia.edu.au/research-ins...
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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I visited the Nuremberg Courthouse today where the Trial of Nazi leaders marked the birth of international criminal law. Stark contrast to ICC President Tomoko Akane from Japan today condemning Trump's executive order authorizing sanctions on ICC staff. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02...
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ICC president condemns U.S. order enabling sanctions on staff
The order allows the U.S. government to impose sanctions such as an asset freeze and a travel ban on ICC staff and their families.
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Chad O'Carroll @chadocl.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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South Korea faces supply chain shock as China restricts rare metal exports
South Korea said on Wednesday it has enough strategic reserves and domestic production capacity to weather China’s new export controls on tungsten and four other minerals, at least in the short term. The trade ministry said it holds about six months’…
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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Clarion call from Kim Beazley on Australia's role in rare earth supply chains www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-winners-...
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The winners we must pick | The Strategist
In a modestly noted announcement in Western Australia in early December, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Resources Minister Madeleine King announced the addition of $475 million in government loan...
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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
This from the @washingtonpost.com on how the Biden administration reached its decision on Nippon Steel-US Steel is so dismaying if not surprising. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Dan Sneider @dcsneider.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
the Asahi New Year look at our disturbed world: "The United States today is no longer able to single-handedly protect the global order, and gone now is the American middle class that supported the nation’s prosperity back then." www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
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EDITORIAL: Scrutiny of politics more crucial in age of uncertainty | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
We feel uneasy. We have a premonition of turbulence, but we can’t quite put our finger on it. An unusually unpredictable new year has dawned.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The very first thing Biden should have done was abolish all the bad Trump tariffs on our allies (& re-entered TPP) The (almost) very last thing he should have done is not do this very dumb CFIUS thing He got awful economic & geopolitical advice. I’ll never understand it. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Zack Cooper @zackcooper.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
My thoughts on Joe Biden and his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad U.S. Steel decision… www.aei.org/foreign-and-...
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Blake Herzinger @bdherzinger.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Something something friend-shoring
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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Leo Lewis really captures what the US Steel affair has meant for Japan as far as coming to terms with the reality of US protectionism. on.ft.com/40k2bnB
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Why it’s hard to be a friend of America
Nippon Steel’s bid for US Steel shows the flaws in the ‘friendshoring’ approach
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Latika M Bourke @latikambourke.com · 16/12/2024
🇬🇧 🇦🇺 #AUKMIN Foreign Secretary David Lammy says the Labour government doesn't use the language of an Indo-Pacific tilt but a 'systemic must.'
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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Arrived in Gwangju early this morning. Not surprising, but the Gwangju Daily News and the citizens of South Cholla Province have little ambiguity about yesterday's impeachment of President Yoon yesterday.
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Karl Friedhoff @kfriedhoff.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Gallup Korea's new numbers are out, just 24 hours ahead of the 2nd impeachment vote. Thread incoming.
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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Glad to see one of the best in the business @myhlee.bsky.social stand-up for journalistic standards, which are now more needed than ever.
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Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
1. This is a bad-faith attack on my coverage, and I think you know it @timshorrock.bsky.social. The story quotes SIX experts from all perspectives - including even from Moon’s govt, a former career FSO who served under Trump and Biden, plus academics. There’s nothing wrong with including…
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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
"The content of the message doesn’t matter if voters never hear it." A real challenge for democracies globally in an information environment where trusted sources are degraded, social media distorts, and there is real mis/disinformation both foreign and domestic.
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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Insightful analysis by @benjaminaengel.bsky.social My only quibble would be to note that hostility to the trilateral Korea-Japan-U.S. relationship will impact the bilateral U.S.-Korea relationship as well as Korea's broader international standing.
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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I normally read @ajmount.bsky.social's posts anyway, but this time was genuinely curious as to why AI/ai thought ASD NCB was a bad idea. Turns out it was Al/al and more persuasive still. #fontperil #youcancallmeal
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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Just heard of the passing of the incomparable David Steinberg. He was a friend and a mentor and helped me get my start in DC nearly 35 years ago. I learned the word "peripatetic" from his voice mail, and he lived it till the end! Vale! asiafoundation.org/remembering-...
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Remembering David I. Steinberg - The Asia Foundation
Stay updated with The Asia Foundation's latest news, program updates, stories, media releases, and testimonials from around the world.
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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
#TheGoldenRoad rave reviewed in The Hindustan Times "Modern India has not told her ancient tale well either to herself or the world, a task newly accomplished by William Dalrymple’s book, The Golden Road – How Ancient India Transformed the World. www.hindustantimes.com/books/review...
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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Late to read this challenging yet constructive edited volume from @carnegieendow.bsky.social Evan Feigenbaum. carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
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Alliance Future: Rewiring Australia and the United States
Too many people in Washington and Canberra presume that the strategic challenge from China alone will make defense coordination within the alliance easy. The reality is that it could sharpen contradic...
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Perth USAsia Centre @perthusasia.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
India will provide a $400 million currency swap to help Maldives’ struggling economy. OUR TAKE: India & China are vying for influence in the Indian Ocean island nation. Muizzu was elected on an ‘India-out’, pro-China campaign, but the deal shows he's pragmatic.
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Perth USAsia Centre @perthusasia.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
An engaging afternoon at our last event for 2024: Energy Security and the decarbonisation imperative for Japan and Australia. 🇯🇵🇦🇺 We were honoured to host Mr Takayuki Ueda, Global CEO of INPEX Australia, for a Keynote address and panel discussion, facilitated by our CEO @lgflake.bsky.social 🗣️
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Robert Ward @robertalanward.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
China/Japan crossover moment as China’s benchmark 10-year bond yield slips below 2%, a 22-year low. Para from FT.
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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Sad to note the passing of Ambassador Mort Abramowitz, a friend and a mentor during my decades in D.C. It was a particular honour to serve with him on the Board of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. His wisdom and experience will be missed www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
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Morton Abramowitz, diplomat galvanized by war and famine, dies at 91
He led calls to send Stinger missiles to anti-Soviet guerrillas in Afghanistan and later founded the International Crisis Group to help global peace efforts.
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Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
First opportunity to hear from H.E. Sugiono, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia. Speaking at #CIFP2024 www.cifp2024.com says in two months in the job he has felt young compared to his peers, but not so in from of nearly 10k university students convened by Dr. Dino Patti Djalal and FPCI!
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
1/7 According to the FT, "China’s long-term bond yields have fallen below Japan’s for the first time, as investors bet that the world’s second-biggest economy will become bogged down by the deflation that has long afflicted its neighbour." www.ft.com/content/d299...
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Chinese bond market grapples with ‘Japanification’
Deflation fuels ‘inexorable’ slide in China’s long-term sovereign bond yields below Japan’s for the first time
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Chatham House Asia-Pacific Programme @chasiapacific.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
With the ruling coalition losing its majority, the government in Japan has been further weakened. The Ishiba administration is now likely to be short-lived, writes @kazutosuzuki.bsky.social.
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Following its snap election, Japanese politics has entered uncharted waters
Prime Minister Ishiba’s election gamble has failed. Japan now faces another period of political uncertainty, which could affect its international standing.
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