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Bellicose or bluster? How South Koreans see the North’s nuclear threat

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By Kellie Mayo Verified, Ben Bland, Greg Earl Verified
| The Lowy Institute
Do South Koreans view North Korea’s nuclear weapons as a threat? In addition to North Korea ratcheting up missile tests this year, including the first by an intercontinental ballistic missile since 2017, there has also been an increase in aggressive rhetoric from Kim Yo-jong, sister to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. These statements came right on the heels of South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s spokesperson reiterating the administration’s options regarding a first strike.
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The battle for Myanmar’s seat in the UN General Assembly

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By Catherine Renshaw, Kellie Mayo Verified, Tom Chodor, Bonnie Bley
| The Lowy Institute
Across Myanmar, the battle continues between the military and those opposed to the military coup d’etat of 1 February 2021. Opposition to the coup began with non-violent resistance in the form of the Civil Disobedience Movement. The aim is now revolution and an end to the military’s decades-long dominance of political life. The revolutionaries have brought within their fold some of the armed ethnic organisations that have long fought against the military in the country’s borderlands.
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What does the arrival of Covid vaccines mean for 2021?

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By Dominic Meagher, Kellie Mayo Verified, Nick Bisley
| The Lowy Institute
On the eve of 2020, the first case of an unexplained SARS-like pneumonia was noticed in Wuhan. 2021 has begun with vaccines against Covid-19 already approved and mass vaccination campaigns rolling out. But we also begin the year with almost 85 million people confirmed to have been infected by SARS-CoV-2 and nearly 2 million people dead. No vaccine has ever been developed in such a short time, and never has so much depended on the result. Will vaccines be the difference between 2020 and 2021?
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Covid-19 and foreign policy: What’s changed, what hasn’t

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By Dick Grant, Kellie Mayo Verified
| The Lowy Institute
A lot of ink is flowing about the “new normal” that will prevail post-crisis. A brief look at four different international issues offers a glimpse of what this “new normal” in international cooperation might be. The first concerns global health. Leaving aside for the moment the call by countries such as Australia to clarify where, how, and why Covid-19 started, everyone must wish for a series of actions that lead globally to control of the virus, and establishing an effective vaccine.
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ABC: Australia’s waning soft-power star

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By Annmaree O’Keeffe, Kellie Mayo Verified
| lowyinterpreter.org
As the ABC chair Ita Buttrose reminded the audience at the weekend’s Lowy Institute Media Awards dinner, this year marks 80 years since Australia started broadcasting internationally. As she noted, Prime Minister Bob Menzies mused at the inauguration of the service on 20 December 1939, “The time has come to speak for ourselves”.
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The Kainaki II Declaration is a signal of Pacific strength

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By Meg Taylor, Kellie Mayo Verified
| The Lowy Institute
It was indeed an emotional moment when Pacific leaders and delegates were greeted by small children of Tuvalu – submerged in water surrounding a model of their sinking islands with their call to “Save Tuvalu, save the world”, upon their arrival to the 50th Pacific Islands Forum held this month in Funafuti.
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