Bec Strating

Director, La Trobe Asia @latrobeasia / Professor of International Relations @latrobe

[Rinan Shah, PhD @rinan_shah]

Darjeeling's spring dependence has been my area of study for close to 10 years. Today, Ruth Gamble and I published our research into this embattled relationship between a perpetual but declining source of water and a growing city.
https://t.co/5iCJILCq9s

[Bates Gill @batesgill1]

1/6 On behalf of the China Strategic Knowledge Initiative (CSKI) at Macquarie University and my fellow CSKI co-director @CourtneyFung I am very happy to announce that our post-doc position in contemporary China studies is now open for applications.

[AMTI @AsiaMTI]

AIS data shows Beijing has increased its oil and gas operations in the East China Sea over the past year, building three new permanent structures and expanding exploration efforts in waters even more sensitive for Tokyo. https://t.co/kN227fPbma

[Evan A. Feigenbaum @EvanFeigenbaum]

Sorry, folks, but it IS America's reverse pivot FROM Asia. Yes, we can rationalize this or that discrete action as having logic, as a bargaining ploy, or by invoking some sort of "madman theory" of leverage in a supreme effort at what I call "Trump strategic retrofitting" — the habit of imputing Bismarckian strategic genius after the fact to explain Trump's impulsive or transactional statements and actions.

I think we just have to see the whole picture and take it together. To be (1) bogged down in a war in another region, (2) pull all carriers and other assets from the Pacific, (3) burn through munitions and people that will be needed to deter, much less prevail, in a fight in Asia, (4) withdraw from trade pacts that many of the major regional economies are in — and that Washington's own allies urged it to join, (5) tariff everyone including allies, (6) coerce investment, (7) withdraw or raise the cost of market access, and more is not, in fact, a sign that the United States is "intensifying" its engagement in the world's most vital and dynamic region.

As I told Joe Kelly at @australian this week, "anyone that says this whole package of steps is a net positive for deterrence is deluded. We’ve gone from a stillborn ‘pivot to Asia’ to a reverse pivot from Asia.”

Or as Chico Marx, disguised as Groucho, told Mrs. Teasdale in Duck Soup, "who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes?"

Cynically yours.

[The National Bureau of Asian Research @NBRnews]

NBR advisor @arzandc & NBR nonresident fellow
@becstrating @WarOnTheRocks: "Cooperation depends on whether agreements have been translated into routine staff interactions, delegated authorities, secure communications, and practiced operational procedures." https://t.co/V7GSLomUj1

[ASPI @ASPI_org]

China pushes harder in South China Sea – as attention drifts away | @becstrating | https://t.co/yfvxDK4ObC

[Blue Security @BlueSecProgram]

OUT NOW Maritime Affairs Issue 20 | Human Trafficking at Sea: From a "3-P's" to a "3-R's" Framework by Sallie Yea.

[Bec Strating @becstrating]

@bwmoles Thanks for sharing @bwmoles great to see!

[The Lowy Institute @LowyInstitute]

Can ASEAN handle a crisis in the Indo-Pacific? The @LowyInstitute's @hmarston4 discussed this and more with experts @becstrating, @DonMcLainGill95 and Murni Abdul Hamid. 📽️Watch the full event here: https://t.co/KrksORN9En

[Hunter Marston @hmarston4]

I greatly enjoyed moderating this discussion with three excellent speakers on regional security in Southeast Asia, Australia & whether ASEAN can manage the challenges of today. Glad to have a full house @LowyInstitute for my first public event! 🙏🏼 @becstrating @DonMcLainGill95

[Bec Strating @becstrating]

@meclarke114

[Bec Strating @becstrating]

Looking forward to it!

[Hunter Marston @hmarston4]

You can still register for our event next Thursday @LowyInstitute on ASEAN and Indo-Pacific security ft. @DonMcLainGill95 @becstrating & Murni Abdul Hamid: https://t.co/er3m7Jxib7

[Hunter Marston @hmarston4]

You can still register for our event next Thursday @LowyInstitute on ASEAN and Indo-Pacific security ft. @DonMcLainGill95 @becstrating & Murni Abdul Hamid: https://t.co/er3m7Jxib7

[Dr Huong LE THU @le2huong]

How ironic... Communist #Vietnam appears a defender of Rules Based Order. The #US - the leader of the free world - dismisses the RBO as utopian fantasy. The reversal has happened.
#SLD26

[Hunter Marston @hmarston4]

The @LowyInstitute will host 3 outstanding speakers in Sydney on 11 June to discuss traditional & non-traditional security threats in Asia & gaps in regional response mechanisms ft. @becstrating @DonMcLainGill95 & Murni Abdul Hamid. RSVP at the link below: https://t.co/er3m7Jxib7

[Peter Grace @PeterCGrace]

Maritime security: @becstrating says maritime order is a subset of the international order, observing changes here help us think of the order writ large. @asianewzealand Asia Symposium.

[The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand @ConversationEDU]

Both countries claim overlapping parts of the Gulf of Thailand with potentially lucrative oil and gas reserves. There is a peaceful path to resolve the dispute. @becstrating @madeandi @latrobe @UOW https://t.co/5VBUdW80vm

[Bec Strating @becstrating]

@sbmitche @latrobe Thanks Sara!

[Bec Strating @becstrating]

Very happy to be leading the new La Trobe Centre for Global Security, building on fantastic interdisciplinary expertise in Humanities and Social Sciences and across @latrobe to address multidimensional challenges

[La Trobe University @latrobe]

Threats to global security are overlapping like never before. Climate change, health, food security, cybersecurity, economics—they're all interconnected, and cannot be meaningfully understood in isolation.

Enter the La Trobe Centre for Global Security. https://t.co/NDzVRopK2b

[Bec Strating @becstrating]

@manjeetsp @latrobe Thank you Manjeet!

[Bec Strating @becstrating]

@davidcapie @latrobe Thank you @davidcapie!