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Lowy Institute’s Jonathan Pryke on APEC 2018
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) ended with no agreed communique and unresolved tensions between the United States and China on open display.
Lowy Institute’s Pacific Islands program director, Jonathan Pryke, who observed the forum in Port Moresby, said: “it is distressing for all parties that they weren’t able to find common ground. There is a fear that we’re losing the middle here.”
Pryke told The Conversation “the desire for a convergence of China into the international liberal order seems like a bit of a fantasy now.”
But he says “whilst the summit has left everyone on a…
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