The 6th Annual

Australia-Japan Dialogue
US Primacy in the Asia-Pacific: Trends
and Policy Implications for the
Australia-Japan Relationship
Tokyo, December 9, 2016

Supported by In partnership with

Background
One of the most pressing policy challenges for policy makers in Canberra and Tokyo today is ensuring
that Chinas rise does not threaten the stability of the current order in the Asia-Pacific while also avoiding
confrontation and conflict with Australia and Japans largest trading partner. The possible futures under
consideration in both countries include:

o US primacy and a robust economic relationship with China will continue largely unchanged under
the existing regional order;
o An overt balance of power stand-off between China and a coalition of US allies will develop,
making conflict more likely;
o A pre-emptive accommodation of Chinas interests through the successful negotiation of a G-2
concert of powers;
o Chinese primacy will emerge in the event of a US drawdown in the region accompanied by a
bandwagoning to Beijing among the regions middle and minor powers.

Almost all countries would prefer the preservation of the US led regional order, but given Beijings recent
behaviour over Chinas maritime territorial claims and its emergence as a major strategic power, US
primacy is unlikely to go unchallenged. But Chinas capacity to mount a sustained challenge to US
leadership in Asia is also unclear, which adds further to ongoing debate over Chinas future course. As
indicated by the recent economic headwinds facing Beijing, Chinas growth trajectory is by no means
assured into the future and domestically the Communist Party is confronted by a variety of pressing
public policy challenges and the fragile nature of its political legitimacy.

The foundation of stability in the Asia-Pacific traditionally has been US military and economic power in
the region, in addition to confidence in Washington maintaining its commitment to the regions liberal
order. Ongoing US engagement is a priority for Australia and Japan, and also a major influence on how
their own relationship develops. Indeed, the spectre of a possible US drawdown in the Asia-Pacific - made
more worrying by Chinas aggressive posturing - already is encouraging Australia and Japan to signal a
willingness to burden-share with the US. Unprecedented levels of US fiscal debt, a new administration in
Washington from January 2017, and persistent uncertainty over domestic US support for overseas
military commitments have also pushed Australian and Japanese governments to commit to increases in
defence spending and deeper defence cooperation with other US allies in the region. Donald Trumps
surprise election as US President in November, moreover, has created even greater concern and
speculation over future US policy in the region.

A key strategic concern for Australia and Japan, and other US alliance partners in the region, is the
strength of US resolve to effectively hedge against the emergence of a revisionist China and continue to
provide the public goods that so far have underwritten much of the Asia-Pacifics security and economic
prosperity. But a major question remains: rhetoric aside, how far should Australia and Japan be willing to
go in order to maintain the US commitment to the Asia-Pacific given their important economic
relationships with China and the potential for regional tensions to further escalate?

Objectives and Approach

If we accept that the stability of the Asia-Pacific order largely depends on US engagement and leadership,
and secondly that Australia and Japans core interests as middle powers are tied to the prospects of that
order continuing, it would seem that Australian and Japanese interests are best served by working to
preserve the current order, and that the so-called China Choice is in fact no choice at all. In reality this
means clarifying US alliance expectations and encouraging a strong US presence in the region,
strategically, economically, and diplomatically. However, as the debates in Australia over the so-called
China choice and in Japan over the desirability of security reform have demonstrated, this approach is
disputed by those who not only fear the costs of confrontation with China, but also doubt Washingtons
resolve to maintain primacy in the Asia-Pacific.
But rather than seeking only to use Australian and Japanese perceptions of China as a way of assessing
their converging strategic interests, the prospects for deeper bilateral security cooperation, and possibly
even an informal/formal tri-lateral alliance, can be better understood by examining Australian and
Japanese perceptions of:

o Their evolving parallel alliances with the US and the potential for further cross-bracing;
o The depth of their shared commitment to the US led regional order in strategic and economic terms;
o And the degree to which Australia and Japan genuinely will continue to share overlapping interests
in their strategic outlooks over the coming years.

The major goals of this project are to better understand Australian and Japanese perceptions of US
primacy via the lens of their respective alliance relationships with the US; examine how these perceptions
shape Australia and Japans bilateral relationship; and to provide guidance on the options for ensuring both
regional stability and continued US engagement. The two central questions to be discussed at this years
Dialogue are:

1. How do Australian and Japanese policy perceptions of US primacy, in strategic and economic
terms, shape their respective views of the regional order in the Asia-Pacific?
2. Is Australia and Japans shared commitment to a US-led regional order likely to lead to a formal
security alliance?

Outcomes
The Griffith Asia institute will publish the Dialogue papers from each session (approx. 3,000 words) in a
single policy volume to be distributed to policy makers and think tanks/research institutes in Japan,
Australia, and the US. Michael Heazle and Andrew ONeil also will lead the preparation of an edited volume
compilation of substantially revised and expanded versions of the Dialogue papers. UK publisher Edward
Elgar already has expressed a strong interest in commissioning a book along these lines.

Session Structure
Each session will feature presentation of three written papers (15 mins each; discussion papers
approximately 3,000 words) followed by open discussion and contributions (approximately 45 mins,
including chairpersons remarks) from the audience and other panellists.

8:15-9:00 Registration

9:00-9:45 Welcome and opening remarks

GAI Director (acting): Professor Ian Hall

Ambassador Toshiro Iijima, Policy Planning, International Security Policy;

Deputy Director-General, Foreign Policy Bureau, Japan Ministry of Foreign
Affairs

Mr Bassim Blazey, Minister-Counsellor, Australian Embassy, Tokyo

9:45-11:15 Session 1
Is US leadership/primacy declining in Asia?

Chair: Associate Professor Michael Heazle, Griffith University

 Presenter 1: Ms Sheryn Lee, Macquarie University
Presenter 2: Associate Professor Ryo Sahashi, Kanagawa University
Presenter 3: Dr Van Jackson, Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies

In this session panellists will be asked to provide an assessment of the contemporary nature of US
leadership in the region and address the question of whether American primacy is declining or remains
largely unchanged. Panellists will be asked to summarise the various perspectives in their own countries
on these issues, in addition to outlining their own arguments. Key questions include: How central to
regional stability is continued US leadership/primacy in Asia? What are the key assumptions driving
discussion over American leadership in Japan, Australia and the US itself? How do strategic and economic
imperatives interact in these discussions?

11:15-11:30 Morning Tea

11:30-13:00 Session 2
How robust is Asias alliance system?

Chair: Professor Andrew ONeil, Griffith University

Presenter 1: Associate Professor James Brown, University of Sydney
Presenter 2: Professor Satoru Mori, Hosei University
Presenter 2: Dr Mira Rapp-Hooper, Center for a New American Security

This session focuses on the contemporary state of Americas alliances in Asia. For Japan and Australia, the
broader US alliance system promotes a foundation for regional stability while the parallel alliances they
have with Washington provide a degree of strategic reassurance they would not otherwise have.
Participants in this session will be asked to reflect in detail on how Americas Asian alliances are evolving,
what explains this evolution, and what they see as the key drivers of the Japan-US and Australia-US
alliances.

13:00-14:00 Lunch and keynote address

13:15-13:45 Ambassador Shingo Yamagami, Director-General (acting), Japan Institute of

International Affairs
13:45-14:00 Short Break

14:00-15:30 Session 3
Is a Japan-Australia alliance on the cards?

Chair: Professor Richard Rigby, Australian National University

Presenter 1: Mr Ryosuke Hanada, Japan Institute of International Affairs
Presenter 2: Professor Rikki Kersten, Murdoch University
Presenter 3: Dr Zack Cooper, Centre for Strategic and International studies

As security cooperation has between Japan and Australia has become increasingly intimate, speculation
has intensified that the two countries may be heading towards either a formal or informal security alliance.
In this session, panellists are asked to provide insights into what they see as the prospects for an alliance
between Australia and Japan, how this might develop over time, and what the implications would be for
both countries and the region more generally.

15:30-15:45 Afternoon tea

15:45-16:30 Session 4
Discussion, summary, and publication strategy
Chairs: Associate Professor Michael Heazle and Professor Andrew O'Neil

This closing session seeks to address the Dialogues two central questions by bringing together the
various strands of the days discussion and summarising the key arguments. It will also chart a course for
the policy volume and publications (an edited volume and/or collaboration among paper
givers/participants on refereed journal papers).

16:30-17:30 Drinks & Free Discussion/Networking

CLOSE
OPENING SPEAKERS
Dr Ian Hall
Director, Griffith Asia Institute

Ian Hall is the Director of the Griffith Asia Institute. His most recent
books include Dilemmas of Decline: British Intellectuals and World
Politics, 1945-1975 (2012) and The Engagement of India:
Strategies and Responses (2014). He is currently working on an
Australian Research Council funded project on Indian international
thought.

Mr Toshiro Iijima
Ambassador of Policy Planning and International Security
Policy
Deputy Director-General, Foreign Policy Bureau, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, Japan

Mr Iijimas expertise in international politics and security is supported

by his experience including working as Deputy Director-General of
Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) (2013-2015), Director
of Western Europe Division (2007-2008) and Executive Assistant
to the Foreign Minister (1996-98). He also has wide experience in
trade and economic affairs, where he served as Director of Economic
Policy Division (2011-2013), and Director of International Trade
Division (2008-2011).

His overseas posts include First Secretary of the Permanent Mission

of Japan to the UN and international organizations in Geneva (2000-
03) and Counsellor of the Embassy of Japan in Berlin (2003-07).

He has held his current post since October 2015.

Mr Bassim Blazey
Minister-Counsellor, Australian Embassy, Tokyo

Mr Blazey is the Minister-Counsellor at the Australian Embassy in

Tokyo with responsibility for political affairs since January 2016.

A career officer with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and

Trade, Mr Blazey has held a number of positions at the Departments
headquarters in Canberra and on overseas assignments.

His recent assignments in Canberra have included: Assistant

Secretary, Environment Branch (2013-2014); Assistant Secretary,
 Maritime South East Asia Branch (2012-13); Head, UN Security
Council Campaign Taskforce (2010-2011); Assistant Secretary,
Consular Policy Branch (2007-2009) and Head, Iraq Taskforce
(2005-2006).

He has had two overseas assignments. First Secretary (Political) at

the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia (1995-1998) and
Counsellor at the Australian Permanent Mission to the United Nations
in New York, (2001-2004).

Mr Blazey grew up in India and migrated to Australia with his parents

when he was 16 years old. He is a graduate of Sydney University and
the Australian National University. He is married with one son.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Ambassador Shingo Yamagami
Director-General (Acting), Japan Institute of International
Affairs

Director General (Acting) of the Japan Institute of International

Affairs (JIIA) since October 2015. After graduating from University
of Tokyo (Faculty of Law), he entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(MOFA) in 1984. His previous posting was Ambassador for Policy
Planning and International Security Policy, and Deputy Director-
General of Foreign Policy Bureau (2014-2015). His diplomatic
experience includes Political Minister in London (2009-12), Director
of Second North America Division (2003-04), Consul in Hong Kong
(1998-2000) and Deputy Director of China and Mongolia Division
(1996-98). He has wide experience in legal and treaty affairs, where
he served as Director of Treaties Division (2004-07) and then
Deputy Director-General of International Legal Affairs Bureau
(2012-14). His engagement with treaty-making includes Counsellor
at the Permanent Mission in Geneva (2000-03) as well as Deputy
Director of WTO Office of MOFA (1993-96). He has also taught
international law and politics at the Graduate school of University of
Tokyo.
SESSION SPEAKERS AND CHAIRS

Associate Professor Michael Heazle

Griffith Asia Institute

Michael Heazle is an Associate Professor with the Griffith Asia

Institute and the Griffith Universitys School of Government and
International Relations where he teaches International Relations and
Politics. From 1992 to 2000, Dr Heazle was a regular contributor to
the Far Eastern Economic Review, and wrote for a number of other
domestic and international media. Dr Heazle has researched and
published in the areas of energy, human, and environmental security;
policy making and the treatment of specialist advice; China-Japan
relations; and Northeast Asia security. His works include a collection
of books and edited volumes with various university presses and
publishers (University of Washington Press, Cambridge University
Press, Earthscan, Edward Elgar) and research articles in peer
reviewed journals including Marine Policy, Environmental Science and
Policy, Intelligence and National Security, and the Australian Journal
of International Affairs.

Sheryn Lee
Macquarie University

Sheryn Lee is an Associate Lecturer at the Department of Security

Studies and Criminology, Macquarie University. She is also a PhD
Candidate at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, the
Australian National University. Her dissertation examines the
modernization of naval and associated air capabilities in the Asia-
Pacific, and the question of an arms race. She was previously a non-
resident WSD-Handa Fellow at Pacific Forum, Center for Strategic
and International Studies, and holds an AM in Political Science from
the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a Benjamin Franklin
Fellow and Mumford Fellow. She was also a T.B. Millar scholar at the
SDSC, and Robert ONeill scholar at the International Institute of
Strategic Studies-Asia in Singapore. She has previously published in
Asian Security, Survival, the RUSI Journal, and Contemporary Politics.
Dr Ryo Sahashi
Associate Professor of International Politics and
Associate Dean, Faculty of Law, Kanagawa University

Dr Sahashi specializes in international politics and is currently focusing

on East Asian security as well as Japanese security policy. His recent
book is In a Search for Coexistence: the United States and Two Chinas
during the Cold War (Tokyo: Keiso, 2015). He published numerous
articles in Chinese, English and Japanese and is writing his next book
on East Asia security order and architecture.

He received his B.A. from International Christian University and his

Ph.D. with honor from the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics at
the University of Tokyo. He also studied at Department of Political
Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

His early academic career as faculty started with the University of

Tokyo and Australian National University. He joined Kanagawa
University in 2010 as senior faculty. He teaches also at Hitotsubashi
University and Sophia University, and serves as Research Fellow,
Japan Center for International Exchange.

Dr Sahashi has been Visiting Associate Professor, Walter H.

Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center, Stanford University and
Shigeru Yoshida Chair, Instituto Tecnolgico Autnomo de Mxico
(ITAM). He also served adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Sasakawa
Peace Foundation, Tokyo Foundation-German Marshall Fund of the
United States Partnership Fellow, and Guest Researcher for First
Special Committee Research Office, House of Councilors.

Dr Van Jackson
Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies

Van Jackson is an Associate Professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for

Security Studies (APCSS) and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center
for a New American Security (CNAS). He is the author of Rival
Reputations: Coercion and Credibility in US-North Korea Relations
(Cambridge University Press). Van is also the host of the podcast
Pacific Pundit, and a senior editor at War on the Rocks. His research
interests include Asian security, U.S. foreign policy, North Korea,
international relations theory, historical institutionalism, and defense
strategy. His research has appeared in Journal of Strategic Studies,
Foreign Policy Analysis, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific,
Asian Security, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and Comparative
Strategy, among other places.
Professor Andrew ONeil
Dean (Research) Griffith Business School
Griffith University

Andrew is Dean (Research) and Professor of Political Science in the

Griffith Business School. Prior to being appointed Dean in April 2016,
he was Head of the School of Government and International Relations
(2014-2016) and Director of the Griffith Asia Institute (2010-
2014). Before coming to Griffith in 2010, Andrew was Associate
Head (Research) in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Flinders
University, and prior to entering academia he worked as a
Commonwealth public servant. Andrews research expertise focuses
on the intersection of strategic, political, and economic change in Asia
with particular emphasis on the security dimension of international
relations, and he is a frequent media commentator on these topics.
Working in teams, Andrew is the recipient of ARC Discovery and
Linkage Project funding, and he has also received competitive
industry funding from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade,
the Japan Foundation, and the Department of Defence. He is a former
member of the Australian Foreign Ministers National Consultative
Committee on National Security Issues and former advisory board
member of the Lowy Institutes G20 Studies Centre.

Associate Professor James Brown

University of Sydney

James Brown is the Research Director of the US Studies Centre at

the University of Sydney. A former Australian Army officer he
commanded a cavalry troop in southern Iraq, served on the Australian
taskforce headquarters in Baghdad, managed operations and
contingency planning for Australia's Solomon Islands mission, and was
attached to Special Forces in Afghanistan. Between 2010 and 2014
James was the Military Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International
Policy researching Australian defence and strategic policy. In 2015 he
was appointed an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of
Sydney. A regular contributor to Australian and international media,
his first book was the acclaimed Anzac's Long Shadow: The Cost of
Our National Obsession (Black Inc, 2014).

James leads the US Studies Centre's policy-focused research

programs. His personal research focuses on future challenges and
opportunities for the US-Australia relationship.
Professor Satoru Mori
Hosei University

Satoru Mori is a professor at the Department of Global Politics,

Faculty of Law, Hosei University. He also advises the Japanese
government in his capacity as a senior fellow of the National Security
Secretariat. Dr. Moris areas of research are contemporary U.S.
foreign and defense policy, Japan-U.S. relations and international
politics. He is currently undertaking policy studies on U.S. strategy in
Asia and its implications for East Asian security as well as an academic
research project on the origins of the U.S. second offset strategy in
the 1970s. He is a former Foreign Ministry official, and holds a Ph.D.
degree from the University of Tokyo, LL.M. degrees from Columbia
University Law School and Kyoto University Graduate School of Law,
and a LL.B. degree from Kyoto University Faculty of Law. During his
sabbatical leave, he was a visiting researcher at Princeton University
(2014-2015) and George Washington University (2013-2015). He
is currently involved in policy research projects at the Japan Institute
of International Affairs, the Institute for International Policy Studies,
the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation, the Sasakawa Peace
Foundation, and the Tokyo Foundation. He has delivered remarks at
workshops and events organized by the U.S. Department of State,
the U.S. Pacific Command, the Council on Foreign Relations, the
Center for a New American Security, the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, the Center for the National Interest, among
others. Dr. Mori is a recipient of the 2015 Nakasone Yasuhiro
Incentive Award.

Dr Mira Rapp-Hooper
Center for a New American Security

Mira Rapp-Hooper is a Senior Fellow with the Asia-Pacific Security

Program at CNAS. She is formerly a Fellow with the CSIS Asia
Program and Director of the CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency
Initiative. Her expertise includes Asia security issues, deterrence,
nuclear strategy and policy, and alliance politics. She was previously a
Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Dr. Rapp-Hoopers academic writings have appeared in Political
Science Quarterly, Security Studies, and Survival. Her policy writings
have appeared in The National Interest, Foreign Affairs, and The
Washington Quarterly, and her analysis has been featured in The New
York Times, The Washington Post, and on NPR and the BBC, among
others.

Dr. Rapp-Hooper is a Foreign Policy Interrupted Fellow and a David

Rockefeller Fellow of the Trilateral Commission. She holds a B.A. in
history from Stanford University and an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in
political science from Columbia University.
Professor Richard Rigby
Executive Director, ANU China Institute
Professorial Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy
Associate Director, Centre on China in the World (CIW)

Professor Richard Rigby graduated in History at the The Australian

National University in 1970 and went on to do his PhD - subsequently
reworked and published by the ANU Press as The May 30th
Movement - under Professor Wang Gungwu in the then Department
of Far Eastern History (now the School of Culture, History &
Language).

Richard joined Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs in 1975,

where he worked until the end of 2001: postings included Tokyo,
Beijing (twice), Shanghai (Consul-General 1994-1998), London, and
Israel (Ambassador, 2000-2001). He then joined the Office of
National Assessments as Assistant Director-General, responsible for
North and South Asia, where he worked until taking up his current
position with the ANU China Institute in April 2008.

While engaged in government work, Richard continued to pursue his

academic interests with a series of translations, book reviews and
articles on China-related topics. His personal interests in Chinese
studies are primarily literary and historical, but his profession has
ensured a thorough immersion in most aspects of contemporary
China and other major Asian cultures.

Mr Ryosuke Hanada
Research Fellow, Japan Institute of International Affairs

Mr. Ryosuke Hanada is a research fellow at the Japan Institute of

International Affairs (JIIA) where he mostly researches Japans
relations with key maritime states in the Indo-Pacific region, in
particular Australia and India. He is also a PhD candidate at the
Australian National University. He obtained M.A. from the University
of Warwick and B.A. in Law from Waseda University. His publication
includes,Emerging Great Power Competition: U.S and China in
Regional Economic Cooperation of the Asia-Pacific, Waseda
University Organization for Japan-US, Studies: Student Paper
No.201201.
Professor Rikki Kersten
Dean, School of Arts, Murdoch University

Professor Rikki Kersten is Dean of the School of Arts at Murdoch

University in Western Australia. She specialises in Japanese political
history, security policy and foreign policy, and she has a particular
interest in Australia-Japan security relations and the US-Japan
alliance. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of
Tokyo's Institute of Social Science and Faculty of Law, and at Keio
University. Rikki spent five years in the Australian Foreign Service,
completing a posting in the Political Section of the Australian Embassy
in Tokyo, before returning to academic life. Rikki has taught modern
Japanese history at Sydney and Leiden Universities, and she has
served as Research Manager and subsequently Director of the
Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific at the University of Sydney.
She was also Dean of the Faculty of Asian Studies and of the College
of Asia and the Pacific at ANU before assuming her current role at
Murdoch University.

Dr Zack Cooper
Centre for Strategic and International Studies

Zack Cooper is a fellow with the Asia team at the Center for Strategic
and International Studies (CSIS). Dr. Cooper focuses on Asian security
issues and has coauthored or coedited numerous studies, including
Asia-Pacific Rebalance 2025: Capabilities, Presence, and
Partnerships; The ANZUS Alliance in an Ascending Asia; Federated
Defense in Asia; Assessing the Asia-Pacific Rebalance; and
Strategic Japan: New Approaches to Foreign Policy and the U.S.-
Japan Alliance. His research has also appeared in Security Studies, the
Washington Quarterly, the National Interest, and International
Security, and he works closely with the CSIS Asia Maritime
Transparency Initiative. Prior to joining CSIS, Dr. Cooper worked as a
research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary
Assessments. He previously served on the White House staff as
assistant to the deputy national security adviser for combating
terrorism. He also worked as a civil servant in the Pentagon, first as a
foreign affairs specialist and then as a special assistant to the principal
deputy under secretary of defense for policy. He received a B.A. from
Stanford University and an M.P.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Princeton
University, where he studied how leaders alter national defense
policies in response to changing perceptions of relative power.
ATTENDEE LIST (in alphabetical order)
o Mr Bassim Blazey, Minister-Counsellor, Australian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan

o Associate Professor James Brown, University of Sydney, Australia

o Dr Zack Cooper, Centre for Strategic and International Studies

o Ms Shion Fujita, The Japan Foundation, Japan

o Professor Ian Hall, Griffith University, Australia

o Mr Ryosuke Hanada, Japan Institute of International Affairs, Japan

o Associate Professor Michael Heazle, Griffith University, Australia

o Ambassador Toshiro Iijima, Policy Planning, International Security Policy; Director-General,

Foreign Policy Bureau, Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan

o Dr Van Jackson, Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, United States of America

o Vice Admiral Hideaki Kaneda, Japan Institute of International Affairs, Japan

o Professor Rikki Kersten, Murdoch University, Australia

o Professor Tsutomu Kikuchi, Japan Institute of International Affairs, Japan

o Professor Masahiro Kobori, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

o Ms Sheryn Lee, Macquarie University, Australia

o Dr Thomas Mahony, Office of National Assessment, Australia

o Mr Justin McCurry, The Guardian Newspaper, Japan

o Professor Satoru Mori, Hosei University, Japan

o Professor Andrew ONeil, Griffith University, Australia

o Dr Mira Rapp-Hooper, Center for a New American Security, United States of America

o Professor Richard Rigby, Australian National University, Australia

o Associate Professor Ryo Sahashi, Kanagawa University, Japan

o Professor Benjamin Schreer, Macquarie University, Australia

o Mr Cameron Stewart, The Australian, Australia

o Dr Seiichiro Takagi, Japan Institute of International Affairs, Japan

o Ambassador Shingo Yamagami, Director-General (acting), Japan Institute of International

Affairs, Japan
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