{"id":7066,"date":"2020-03-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=7066"},"modified":"2020-03-26T10:11:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T00:11:46","slug":"regional-wrap-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/regional-wrap-46\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional wrap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The past fortnight drove home the rather surreal realisation\nthat we\u2019re living in unprecedented times. Never before, at least in the living\nmemory of today\u2019s global population, has a pandemic or calamity threatened to completely\nupend our way of life and present an existential challenge to our livelihoods.\nCOVID-19 does just that, and on a scale never seen before. What makes this crisis\neven more deadly is the vacuum of leadership on display in many nations,\nparticularly the US, whose status as the leader of the international order is\nnow under threat, as Kurt Campbell and Rush Doshi argue<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time of writing, Australia has announced<\/a>\nextensive Stage Two lockdown measures to enforce social distancing by placing\nrestrictions on public gatherings and businesses; it\u2019s being reported that the\nnewly created national cabinet is preparing for Stage Three. However, Prime\nMinister Scott Morrison\u2019s messaging on the COVID crisis has been said to be\nconfusing and lacking in urgency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, New Zealand, with fewer number of\ninfections and deaths than Australia, has declared<\/a>\na four-week Stage Four lockdown, curbing all outdoor activities and businesses\nexcept for the essential services. This is leading people to draw comparisons between\nMorrison and Jacinda Ardern, who has been seen to be far more pro-active than her\ntrans-Tasman counterpart. India, too, has enforced a 21-day shutdown, along\nsimilar lines as New Zealand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly, but not surprisingly, the Chinese Communist\nParty has embarked upon a new two-pronged strategy to refashion itself as a\n\u2018more responsible great power\u2019, as Mira Rapp-Hooper puts\nit<\/a>. The first element involves changing<\/a>\nthe narrative around the origins of COVID-19, denying that it started in the wet\nmarket in Wuhan, arguing that the first cases were reported in other countries.\nAs Elise Thomas notes<\/a>,\nChina\u2019s becoming \u2018a more active and aggressive player in the Western\ninformation ecosystem\u2019.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lijian Zhao even tweeted<\/a>\nan article promoting the conspiracy theory that the virus was planted in China\nby visiting US military personnel in October 2019. This caused outrage in the\nUS and led to the summoning<\/a>\nof the Chinese ambassador by the State Department. The Chinese envoy, Cui\nTiankai, has however distanced<\/a>\nhimself from Zhao\u2019s tweet, advancing a much more cooperative and reconciliatory\nstance than the latter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re also witnessing a Chinese diplomatic charm-offensive\nin which it\u2019s applying\npressure<\/a> on other nations to stop calling COVID-19 as the \u2018Wuhan Virus\u2019 or\n\u2018Chinese virus\u2019, which Beijing attacks as being racist in connotation. However,\nthere\u2019s an undeniable impulse to dissociate the pandemic from its Chinese\norigins and the missteps of the CCP to cover it up in the first couple of\nmonths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second element of China\u2019s strategy includes<\/a>\nplaying the good global Samaritan and helping other countries with medical\nsupplies and aid to deal with the crisis. In fact, President Xi Jinping invoked\nthe creation of a new \u2018Health Silk Road\u2019, in his telephone conversation with\nthe Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte (after China sent a team of medical\nexperts and equipment to the country). All this, while China claims to have\nsuccessfully brought COVID-19 under control and is extolling the virtues of its\nstrict measures and containment efforts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moving on to some not-strictly COVID related news, China expelled<\/a>\nthirteen American journalists working for the New York Times, the Washington\nPost and the Wall Street Journal this fortnight, in the rapidly escalating\nmedia wars between Washington and Beijing. What began with China banishing<\/a>\nthree American journalists over an\narticle<\/a> criticising its handling of COVID-19 last month, and led to\nPresident Donald Trump placing restrictions on the number of Chinese nationals\nworking in Chinese media outlets in the US, has culminated in the latest\nshowdown and represents a distinctive low point in Sino-US relations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of low point, this week China has moved\nproceedings<\/a> against Australian academic Yang Hengjun, accusing him of\nespionage, despite significant Australian government efforts to secure his\nrelease. Dr Yang has now been held by Chinese authorities for over a year. Australian\nforeign minister Marise Payne issued a scathing statement<\/a>\nyesterday, admonishing the Chinese government for its treatment of Dr Yang,\nadding, \u2018Crises are a time for nations to pull together. It is not in the\nspirit of mutual respect and trust that our continued advocacy for Dr Yang has\nnot been acknowledged.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, North Korea also used this crisis as an\nopportunity to launch<\/a>\ntwo short-range ballistic missiles, known as the KN24, into the Sea of Japan last\nweek. The latest tests came close on the heels of two other tests in early\nMarch that included a \u2018large-caliber close-range ballistic missile system\u2019.\nThese tests possibly represent<\/a>\na breakdown of Kim Jong Un\u2019s patience after his announcement in December \u2018that\nhe was no longer bound by a self-imposed freeze on major weapons tests\u2019, unless\nthe US made \u2018a more appealing offer\u2019 to remove sanctions. More than anything, the\ntests reinforce the notion that trust is in unusually short supply on the\nglobal stage currently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crises are a time for nations to come together- Australia,\nwith a group of other countries including Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile,\nMyanmar, New Zealand and Singapore issued a joint statement<\/a>\nto ease trade restrictions on essential goods, and especially medical supplies during\nthese difficult times and to commit to keeping air and seaports open \u2018to\nsupport the viability and integrity of supply chains globally.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, foreign secretaries and officials of the Quad nations\n(Australia, US, Japan, India) along with New Zealand, Vietnam and South Korea\nheld a videoconference and have committed<\/a>\nto cooperate on \u2018vaccine development, challenges of stranded citizens,\nassistance to countries in need and mitigating the impact on the global\neconomy.\u2019 Initiated by the US government, analysts see it \u2018as an attempt to keep\nthe Quad Plus countries within a sphere on influence and strategic direction.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another attempt at building regional cohesion in the face of\ncrisis was noticed in the Indo-Pacific this fortnight- that of the South Asian\nAssociation for Regional Cooperation. Last weekend, leaders and representatives\nof all eight SAARC nations participated<\/a>\nin a videoconference at the invitation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi\nto discuss the regional response to COVID-19. The discussion led to the\ncreation of an emergency fund to which each nation has pledged their varying\ncontributions. India has also offered SAARC nations a rapid response team and\nother training to deal with the crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some analysts see<\/a>\nthis as Modi\u2019s \u2018geopolitical masterstroke\u2019- and an attempt to unite the\nnotoriously disintegrated nations of South Asia under India\u2019s leadership. The\nprospects of such a realisation coming out of this crisis, nonetheless, may\nhave been slightly marred<\/a>\nby Pakistan bringing up the issue of Kashmir at the meeting, cutting to the\nheart of why South Asia remains the least integrated region in the world today.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, Scott Morrison attended<\/a> a\nbilateral \u2018virtual summit\u2019 with Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong earlier\nthis week. Significantly, the two countries signed a Treaty on Military\nTraining and Training Area Development to develop advanced military training\nfacilities in two locations in Queensland, Australia. They also signed\nmemorandums of understanding on artificial intelligence and data innovation,\nalong with others on further cyber-security cooperation and food-safety\nstandardisation.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significance for Australia<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tough times call for tough measures. Now, more than ever,\nAustralia needs firm and decisive leadership domestically, and internationally.\nWhile the need of the hour may be social distancing, Australian policymakers would\ndo well to remember that we still live in a globalised world and that we need\nto be prepared for the aftermath of this pandemic- for the economy that needs\nto be rebuilt, and for our relationships that need to be strengthened. The real\ntragedy of an America-first administration in the US is beginning to dawn upon\nAustralians and we\u2019re faced with the possibility of a new global order led by a\ncountry that doesn\u2019t share our values. We need an economy less reliant upon a\nnation that has a propensity to leverage its influence through coercive means. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The real need of the hour, then, is to ensure that Australia\nstrengthens its relationships with other like-minded nations in the region,\nparticularly Japan, Indonesia and India. Australia\u2019s deepening ties to\nSingapore are a real bright spot in these troubled times. Canberra should also\nkeep working with its friends in the US and to strengthen the institutional\nlinkages built painstakingly for more than a century. For, as Rapp-Hooper\ncontends, \u2018\u2026it is all but guaranteed that the world will emerge from this\ncrisis focused on how to mitigate future ones.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUTHOR <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aakriti Bachhawat<\/strong> is a Researcher with the Defence and Strategy team at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, and Research Assistant at the Griffith Asia Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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