Gordon Flake
@lgflake.bsky.social
Refugee from Arizona/ DC. Perspectives from Australia's Indian Ocean Capital of Perth
A bit late in sharing this, but was recently honoured to join the "Why Should We Care About the Indo-Pacific?" Podcast for a yarn. Why Should We Care if South Korea Finally Has a New President? | with Go... youtu.be/FP4e-YTZzcE?...
Why Should We Care if South Korea Finally Has a New President? | with Gordon Flake
YouTube video by Why Should We Care About the Indo-Pacific?
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July 8, 2025 at 9:02 AM
A bit late in sharing this, but was recently honoured to join the "Why Should We Care About the Indo-Pacific?" Podcast for a yarn. Why Should We Care if South Korea Finally Has a New President? | with Go... youtu.be/FP4e-YTZzcE?...
Very insigthful article by former KIEP President Dr. Kim Heungchong outlining the solid present and essential future of Australia-Korea Cooperation.
[여의도포럼] 한국과 호주, 새로운 발전 모색할 때 www.kmib.co.kr/article/view...
[여의도포럼] 한국과 호주, 새로운 발전 모색할 때 www.kmib.co.kr/article/view...
[여의도포럼] 한국과 호주, 새로운 발전 모색할 때
6·25전쟁 참전해 도왔던 호주산업화의 핵심 파트너로 기여이제는 단순 협력모델 벗어나글로벌 공급망 공유하는 단계중국 편중 리스크 분산하고방산기업 공동
www.kmib.co.kr
July 4, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Very insigthful article by former KIEP President Dr. Kim Heungchong outlining the solid present and essential future of Australia-Korea Cooperation.
[여의도포럼] 한국과 호주, 새로운 발전 모색할 때 www.kmib.co.kr/article/view...
[여의도포럼] 한국과 호주, 새로운 발전 모색할 때 www.kmib.co.kr/article/view...
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What have Australia and India achieved since concluding the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership deal in 2020? Lisa Singh and I take a look... www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
Five years is a long time in Australia-India relations, but there is still more to do
A stocktake of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
www.lowyinstitute.org
June 3, 2025 at 6:45 AM
What have Australia and India achieved since concluding the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership deal in 2020? Lisa Singh and I take a look... www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
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Asia a clear focus of Trump’s tariffs—for many they’re swingeing, for some they’re brutal, eg Vietnam 46%. Difficult to think of a policy that wld have been better calibrated to drive swathes of the region closer into China’s orbit. US strategic position in Asia is now significantly weaker. FT chart
April 3, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Asia a clear focus of Trump’s tariffs—for many they’re swingeing, for some they’re brutal, eg Vietnam 46%. Difficult to think of a policy that wld have been better calibrated to drive swathes of the region closer into China’s orbit. US strategic position in Asia is now significantly weaker. FT chart
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It was an honour to meet the Republic of Korea's Ambassador to Australia, His Excellency Admiral (Retd) Seungseob Sim, who generously hosted the Australia-Korea Foundation Board at his Residence in Canberra last week.
March 31, 2025 at 7:34 AM
It was an honour to meet the Republic of Korea's Ambassador to Australia, His Excellency Admiral (Retd) Seungseob Sim, who generously hosted the Australia-Korea Foundation Board at his Residence in Canberra last week.
@japarker29.bsky.social Rockstar!
🎙️New podcast 📢
China's naval activity off Australia: coercion or common practice?
@japarker29.bsky.social and @djag2.bsky.social join @davidmandrews.bsky.social to discuss #China's recent naval operations off #Australia, their legality, and the lessons for Australia.
Listen👇
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China's naval activity off Australia: coercion or common practice?
@japarker29.bsky.social and @djag2.bsky.social join @davidmandrews.bsky.social to discuss #China's recent naval operations off #Australia, their legality, and the lessons for Australia.
Listen👇
tinyurl.com/8ujx6erj
March 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
@japarker29.bsky.social Rockstar!
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'Chinese President Xi Jinping’s approach is clear: he’d rather pressure Taiwan into submission over time than launch an all-out invasion,' writes @nathanattrill.bsky.social.
To counter China’s coercion of Taiwan, we must track it better | The Strategist
The threat of a Chinese military invasion of Taiwan dominates global discussion about the Taiwan Strait. Far less attention is paid to what is already happening—Beijing is slowly squeezing Taiwan into...
www.aspistrategist.org.au
March 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
'Chinese President Xi Jinping’s approach is clear: he’d rather pressure Taiwan into submission over time than launch an all-out invasion,' writes @nathanattrill.bsky.social.
Honoured to be appointed to serve on the Australia-Korea Foundation Board and look forward to working toward an even stronger Australia-Korea relationship. www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/pen...
www.foreignminister.gov.au
March 26, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Honoured to be appointed to serve on the Australia-Korea Foundation Board and look forward to working toward an even stronger Australia-Korea relationship. www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/pen...
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We are delighted to announce that CEO Professor @lgflake.bsky.social has been appointed as a new Board Member of the Australia-Korea Foundation (AKF). 🇦🇺🇰🇷
📄 Media release from Senator the Hon Penny Wong here: www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/pen...
📄 Media release from Senator the Hon Penny Wong here: www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/pen...
March 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
We are delighted to announce that CEO Professor @lgflake.bsky.social has been appointed as a new Board Member of the Australia-Korea Foundation (AKF). 🇦🇺🇰🇷
📄 Media release from Senator the Hon Penny Wong here: www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/pen...
📄 Media release from Senator the Hon Penny Wong here: www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/pen...
The world may be on fire, but mangoes still ripen in thier own time. Today was the day for these three from a tree my dear wife grew from seed.
March 13, 2025 at 6:33 AM
The world may be on fire, but mangoes still ripen in thier own time. Today was the day for these three from a tree my dear wife grew from seed.
It has been just over a week since I was honoured to speak at the Munich Security Conference on a APRI Armenia-ORF organized panel on "Minilateralism and Multilateralism: the Shift from Global Alliances to Targeted Partnerships." It is hard to overstate how much has changed in that week. #MSC2025
February 24, 2025 at 4:58 AM
It has been just over a week since I was honoured to speak at the Munich Security Conference on a APRI Armenia-ORF organized panel on "Minilateralism and Multilateralism: the Shift from Global Alliances to Targeted Partnerships." It is hard to overstate how much has changed in that week. #MSC2025
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What was that JD Vance speech at Munich all about?
Chinese-style Wolf Warrior Diplomacy, says Prof. Gordon Flake, designed to please the MAGA base by insulting allies overseas.
My latest yarn for The Nightly: https://latika.me/JDWolfWarrior
Chinese-style Wolf Warrior Diplomacy, says Prof. Gordon Flake, designed to please the MAGA base by insulting allies overseas.
My latest yarn for The Nightly: https://latika.me/JDWolfWarrior
February 17, 2025 at 7:56 AM
What was that JD Vance speech at Munich all about?
Chinese-style Wolf Warrior Diplomacy, says Prof. Gordon Flake, designed to please the MAGA base by insulting allies overseas.
My latest yarn for The Nightly: https://latika.me/JDWolfWarrior
Chinese-style Wolf Warrior Diplomacy, says Prof. Gordon Flake, designed to please the MAGA base by insulting allies overseas.
My latest yarn for The Nightly: https://latika.me/JDWolfWarrior
Excellent panel at #MSC2025. No one better than @PerthUSAsia Board Member Dr. Lynn Kuok to moderate a discussion with Korean and Japanese Foreign Ministers, New Zealand Defence Minister & Deputy SecGen of NATO. The Indo-Pacific has interest in the Euro-Atlantic and vice versa
February 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Excellent panel at #MSC2025. No one better than @PerthUSAsia Board Member Dr. Lynn Kuok to moderate a discussion with Korean and Japanese Foreign Ministers, New Zealand Defence Minister & Deputy SecGen of NATO. The Indo-Pacific has interest in the Euro-Atlantic and vice versa
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📝 This piece dives into China’s growing presence in the furthest reaches of the Indian Ocean, and identifies practical ways Australia and India can work together.
🔗 Published in a compendium of works by Australia India Institute, you can now read here >> perthusasia.edu.au/research-ins...
🔗 Published in a compendium of works by Australia India Institute, you can now read here >> perthusasia.edu.au/research-ins...
February 10, 2025 at 6:16 AM
📝 This piece dives into China’s growing presence in the furthest reaches of the Indian Ocean, and identifies practical ways Australia and India can work together.
🔗 Published in a compendium of works by Australia India Institute, you can now read here >> perthusasia.edu.au/research-ins...
🔗 Published in a compendium of works by Australia India Institute, you can now read here >> perthusasia.edu.au/research-ins...
I visited the Nuremberg Courthouse today where the Trial of Nazi leaders marked the birth of international criminal law. Stark contrast to ICC President Tomoko Akane from Japan today condemning Trump's executive order authorizing sanctions on ICC staff.
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02...
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02...
ICC president condemns U.S. order enabling sanctions on staff
The order allows the U.S. government to impose sanctions such as an asset freeze and a travel ban on ICC staff and their families.
www.japantimes.co.jp
February 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I visited the Nuremberg Courthouse today where the Trial of Nazi leaders marked the birth of international criminal law. Stark contrast to ICC President Tomoko Akane from Japan today condemning Trump's executive order authorizing sanctions on ICC staff.
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02...
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02...
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Clarion call from Kim Beazley on Australia's role in rare earth supply chains
www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-winners-...
www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-winners-...
The winners we must pick | The Strategist
In a modestly noted announcement in Western Australia in early December, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Resources Minister Madeleine King announced the addition of $475 million in government loan...
www.aspistrategist.org.au
January 13, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Clarion call from Kim Beazley on Australia's role in rare earth supply chains
www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-winners-...
www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-winners-...
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If the next US government normalises the idea of absorbing territory by force - even if this is justified as some sort of lunatic diplomatic gambit - it makes it more likely that China will believe that the US will ultimately stand aside during an invasion of Taiwan.
January 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
If the next US government normalises the idea of absorbing territory by force - even if this is justified as some sort of lunatic diplomatic gambit - it makes it more likely that China will believe that the US will ultimately stand aside during an invasion of Taiwan.
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This from the @washingtonpost.com on how the Biden administration reached its decision on Nippon Steel-US Steel is so dismaying if not surprising.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
January 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
This from the @washingtonpost.com on how the Biden administration reached its decision on Nippon Steel-US Steel is so dismaying if not surprising.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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the Asahi New Year look at our disturbed world:
"The United States today is no longer able to single-handedly protect the global order, and gone now is the American middle class that supported the nation’s prosperity back then."
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
"The United States today is no longer able to single-handedly protect the global order, and gone now is the American middle class that supported the nation’s prosperity back then."
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
EDITORIAL: Scrutiny of politics more crucial in age of uncertainty | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
We feel uneasy. We have a premonition of turbulence, but we can’t quite put our finger on it. An unusually unpredictable new year has dawned.
www.asahi.com
January 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
the Asahi New Year look at our disturbed world:
"The United States today is no longer able to single-handedly protect the global order, and gone now is the American middle class that supported the nation’s prosperity back then."
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
"The United States today is no longer able to single-handedly protect the global order, and gone now is the American middle class that supported the nation’s prosperity back then."
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
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The very first thing Biden should have done was abolish all the bad Trump tariffs on our allies (& re-entered TPP)
The (almost) very last thing he should have done is not do this very dumb CFIUS thing
He got awful economic & geopolitical advice. I’ll never understand it.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
The (almost) very last thing he should have done is not do this very dumb CFIUS thing
He got awful economic & geopolitical advice. I’ll never understand it.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
When is an ally not a partner?
This blistering @japantimes.co.jp editorial on the U.S. Steel / Nippon Steel debacle is worth reading in full.
www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2...
This blistering @japantimes.co.jp editorial on the U.S. Steel / Nippon Steel debacle is worth reading in full.
www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2...
Rejecting the Nippon Steel bid is a slap in the face to Japan
Nippon Steel has not given up and continues to lobby U.S. officials and steelworkers, arguing the deal would grow U.S. Steel, protect jobs, and strengthen the industry.
www.japantimes.co.jp
January 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The very first thing Biden should have done was abolish all the bad Trump tariffs on our allies (& re-entered TPP)
The (almost) very last thing he should have done is not do this very dumb CFIUS thing
He got awful economic & geopolitical advice. I’ll never understand it.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
The (almost) very last thing he should have done is not do this very dumb CFIUS thing
He got awful economic & geopolitical advice. I’ll never understand it.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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My thoughts on Joe Biden and his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad U.S. Steel decision…
www.aei.org/foreign-and-...
www.aei.org/foreign-and-...
www.aei.org
January 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My thoughts on Joe Biden and his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad U.S. Steel decision…
www.aei.org/foreign-and-...
www.aei.org/foreign-and-...
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Something something friend-shoring
BREAKING: President Biden has blocked the $14.1 billion sale of US Steel to Nippon Steel, killing a high-profile deal that sparked a political firestorm and tensions between the US and Japan
President Biden Blocks Nippon Steel Bid for US Steel
President Joe Biden has blocked the $14.1 billion sale of United States Steel Corp. to Nippon Steel Corp., killing a high-profile deal that sparked a political firestorm and tensions between the US an...
www.bloomberg.com
January 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Something something friend-shoring
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Leo Lewis really captures what the US Steel affair has meant for Japan as far as coming to terms with the reality of US protectionism.
on.ft.com/40k2bnB
on.ft.com/40k2bnB
Why it’s hard to be a friend of America
Nippon Steel’s bid for US Steel shows the flaws in the ‘friendshoring’ approach
on.ft.com
January 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Leo Lewis really captures what the US Steel affair has meant for Japan as far as coming to terms with the reality of US protectionism.
on.ft.com/40k2bnB
on.ft.com/40k2bnB
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🇬🇧 🇦🇺 #AUKMIN
Foreign Secretary David Lammy says the Labour government doesn't use the language of an Indo-Pacific tilt but a 'systemic must.'
Foreign Secretary David Lammy says the Labour government doesn't use the language of an Indo-Pacific tilt but a 'systemic must.'
December 16, 2024 at 4:45 PM
🇬🇧 🇦🇺 #AUKMIN
Foreign Secretary David Lammy says the Labour government doesn't use the language of an Indo-Pacific tilt but a 'systemic must.'
Foreign Secretary David Lammy says the Labour government doesn't use the language of an Indo-Pacific tilt but a 'systemic must.'