In the Media | June 2021
Asia Society Australia Scholar-In-Residence and Macquarie University Professor Bates Gill revisits 2019's Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty as tensions build between the USA and China, for International Institute for Strategic Studies.
“The supplies of purchased vaccine actually landing on docks — it’s fair to say they are not anywhere near the purchase commitments” - Richard Maude, senior fellow Asia Society Policy Institute and executive director, policy Asia Society Australia, on Asia's vaccination rollout in The New York Times.
“There is more willingness now from many countries to push back against China... Ironically China has helped that through a year or more of incredibly aggressive foreign policy.” - Richard Maude of Asia Society Australia and Asia Society Policy Institute in The Australian Financial Review.
"The developed world needs to do more than hold its breath and hope Southeast Asia can once again fend off a conflagration in a region of some 675 million people"- Richard Maude and Kevin Rudd of Asia Society, Asia Society Policy Institute, and Asia Society Australia in Nikkei Asia.
"Given how many other incredibly difficult issues are on the plate at the moment with China, they could be forgiven for walking towards this rather than running" - Richard Maude, of Asia Society Australia and Asia Society Policy Institute, on Australia instituting Magnitsky-style laws in Bloomberg.
“Indonesia will continue to gravitate towards China under the Jokowi administration and possibly beyond” - Tom Lembong, former Indonesian trade minister and Asia Society Australia distinguished fellow, in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age today.
"It suits China to play out perceptions of division between countries that are pushing back...” - Asia Society Australia Executive Director, Policy, and Asia Society Policy Institute Senior Fellow Richard Maude on recent Australia-New Zealand talks in The Australian.