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Anthony Milner

Australia should focus on rules, not ‘rules-based order’, in Asia

Support for the transition from a US-led world to a multipolar world is gaining traction.

Anthony MilnerSouth East Asia expert

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With wars in Ukraine and Gaza, a surge in trade tariffs, a crisis at the World Trade Organisation and US threats against the International Criminal Court, the “rules-based order” that Australia has promoted time and again to its neighbours is under attack.

Perversely perhaps, this offers an opportunity for Australia in its engagement with ASEAN.

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Anthony Milner is International Director at Asialink and has served on the Howard government's Foreign Affairs Council.

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