Australia must come to the South-East Asia investment table
Australia has chided the US for its security-first view of South-East Asia. But this country suffers from the same syndrome of under doing investment relationships.
Before Kevin Rudd bound himself to the rules governing his utterances as Australia’s ambassador to Washington, or, as he reportedly put it privately, to “shut the f--- up”, he offered a sharp critique of America’s Asia policy.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Bogor, Indonesia, last year. Alex Ellinghausen
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Richard McGregor is a senior fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney.
