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Charting WA’s Future with ASEAN: The WA-ASEAN Trade and Investment Dialogue 2019

Opportunities for WA to build deeper services, investment and people-to-people relationships in Asia are no more pertinent than with and across the diverse Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region.

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India’s RCEP exit a setback, but not a disaster

With an India–China deadlock out of the way, the path is clear to finalise the historic regional trade agreement. Research Director Dr Jeffrey Wilson writes for The Interpreter.

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Examining Japan’s history and current engagement in the Indo-Pacific region

The recent special report by the Perth USAsia Centre, Implementing the Indo-Pacific: Japan’s region-building initiatives examines Japan’s history and current engagement in the Indo-Pacific region and in the wider international sphere. Drawing on the expertise of established and emerging authors across the Indo-Pacific, the report answers important questions and provides new perspectives on plans for regional engagement.

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India’s star continues to rise

Board member Stephen Smith reflects on his recent visit to India as part of a Perth USAsia Centre delegation with CEO Gordon Flake and former Australian High Commissioner to India Peter Varghese.

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Australia’s evolving foreign investment challenges

The role and principal business of the FIRB has evolved over time, as Australia’s investment relationships have changed.

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A Conversation with Steve Clarke of Cell Media Australia

In the lead up to the WA-ASEAN Trade and Investment Dialogue, hosted by JTSI and convened by the Perth USAsia Centre, Tammy Wayne-Elliot asked Steve Clark of Cell Media how the business broke the South East Asian market, and advice for other businesses looking to do the same.

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Trump: Architect or Avatar of the post-liberal international order? Roundtable with Dr Gorana Grgic, U.S. Studies Centre

In a roundtable hosted by Perth USAsia Centre on 3 October with Dr Gorana Grgic, a foreign policy expert at the United States Studies Centre (USSC) in Sydney, discussions centred around the question of how the presidency of Donald Trump might contribute to the dismantling of the current order.

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India and Australia in an uncertain world

Ambassador Sujan R. Chinoy, was our featured speaker at a recent roundtable discussion as part of the Centre’s distinguished Ambassador’s Dialogue program.

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In The Zone 2019 - Critical Materials: Securing Indo-Pacific Technology Futures

The 10th edition of In the Zone brought together experts from across the nation and the Indo-Pacific region on Tuesday 8 October, hosted by The University of Western Australia in partnership with the Perth USAsia Centre.

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