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Half a decade of intensifying asymmetrical action targeted disinformation, malign foreign influence, cyberattacks, espionage, corruption and trade embargoes have transformed Australia’s geopolitical atmosphere.
So far, Australia has been trying out a bunch of different responses. Foreign interference legislation, the Pacific step-up, a reinvigorated Quad, experiments in technological decoupling, scrutiny of university research collaboration with countries of concern and, most recently, Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s appeal to the G7 to strengthen the World Trade Organization dispute resolution mechanism, only to have China move first against Australia in that forum all these efforts are currently in play.
The US has taken some similar actions. But how effective have they been in deterring malign actors?
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Top Stories 2020: International Naval Operations
December 30, 2020 12:03 PM
Motor Tanker (M/T) Wila, a merchant vessel in international waters en-route to the UAE port of Khor Fakkan, in the Gulf of Oman, was boarded by armed Iranian personnel who fast roped aboard the ship from an Iranian Sea King helicopter as it hovered above on Aug. 12, 2020. US Navy Photo
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Like the U.S., international navies grappled with not only the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic but regional security concerns from China’s naval expansion and operations in the Pacific to Iranian and Russian operations in the Middle East.