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“Southeast Asia will not be a focus for a re-elected President Trump, which may allow other parts of the US system, including Congress, State Department, and US Indo-Pacific Command, to drive US engagement,” the institute’s Southeast Asia Program director Susannah Patton said.
The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has condemned a public petition calling for an apology from local breakdancer Rachael Gunn or “Raygun” and the country’s Olympic chief Anna Meares for “misleading the Australian public and undermining the efforts of genuine athletes”.
The additional commitments were not mentioned in the official agreement tabled in the Australian parliament on Monday, which replaced an earlier agreement allowing just the exchange of naval nuclear propulsion information.
Japanese stocks suffered the biggest one-day drop since 1987 on Monday, while the Australian stock market’s ASX 200 was pummelled following disappointing employment figures from the US last week that led to concerns the data all but confirmed a recession was under way.
But the tariffs of between 5.9 and 22.9 per cent were reapplied a year later following an appeal from Golden Circle, Australia’s only producer of canned pineapples. Another separate measure against larger quantities of pineapples used in food services was removed and remained so.
For the first time in a decade, Southeast Asia has attracted more foreign direct investment (FDI) than China as investors shift faster towards building “China + 1” supply chains amid increasing manufacturing costs and rising tariffs that have reduced Beijing’s competitiveness.
A new government report in Australia has recommended nearly 30 steps to enhance the nation’s cultural diversity, including offering citizenship tests in multiple languages and the creation of a dedicated commission for multicultural affairs.