The Australia-India-Japan Trilateral 2018 organised in Brisbane by the Griffith Asia Institute in collaboration with the Consulate-General of Japan, Brisbane and the Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA), took place on the 5th and 6th of February this year. In what was only the second edition of this workshop (the first took place last year), the workshop achieved much in terms of its agenda and outreach. While last year’s theme focused on regional security with a broad brushstroke, this year’s agenda narrowed down on specific sub-themes relevant to Indo-Pacific security linkages.
At the outset, there was a recognition by the participants that this is a time of unprecedented turbulence in the Indo-Pacific, caused both by the rise of a more assertive China as well as an uncertain first year of the Trump administration. The overall perception of the participants was that the liberal regional order is under considerable stress.
Strategic and tactical
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