The 2020 Asia–Pacific Outlook
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By Graeme Dobell
December 09, 2019
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Render the strategic outlook for 2020 into a core conundrum: How goes the new era of great-power competition? Is it to be security confrontation and economic decoupling?
The crystal ball is clouded by rivalry. China and the U.S. are simultaneously close and apart, enmeshed and divided, locked together in contest while musing about trade and technology cleavage.
The region—using either the Indo-Pacific or Asia–Pacific label—slides towards what Peter Jennings calls ‘a riskier, more dangerous reality’. Australia has ruefully accepted that managing great-power competition is now its ‘first priority’.
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