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		<title>The PRC&#8217;s Two Level Game.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2022 00:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Coming on the heels of the recently signed Solomon Islands-PRC bilateral economic and security agreement, the whirlwind tour of the Southwestern Pacific undertaken by PRC Foreign Minister Wang Yi has generated much concern in Canberra, Washington DC and Wellington as well as in other Western capitals. Wang and the PRC delegation came to the Southwestern ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Assessment Brief: Indian-Australian strategic co-operation in the early 21st century.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Assessment Brief: Indian-Australian strategic co-operation in the early 21st century. Balaji Chandramohan and Paul G. Buchanan Introduction. In recent years Australia and India have assumed a greater role in international affairs, emerging as regional powers with great power potential. Changes in the international environment, particularly the rise of China as a common source of concern ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interview: Opposition Grows Against New Zealand Government&#8217;s Anti-Boat People/Asylum-Seeker Deterrent Legislation</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/09/11/interview-opposition-grows-against-new-zealand-governments-anti-boat-peopleasylum-seeker-deterrent-legislation/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 04:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Opposition Grows Against New Zealand Government&#8217;s Anti-Boat People/Asylum-Seeker Deterrent Legislation TriangleTV Interview: Selwyn Manning With Tracey Barnett &#8211; Asylum Seeker Laws &#8211; September 10, 2012. The New Zealand National-led Government has initiated legislation that, if passed through its final stages of Parliament, will detain asylum-seekers should they arrive at the nation&#8217;s borders in groups of ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Analysis: A different sort of BRIC (Australia in comparative perspective).</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Analysis: A different type of BRIC (Australia in comparative perspective). In this installment of the 36th Parallel series of analytic briefs, the focus is on Australia compared to other rising middle powers, including three of the BRICs: Brazil, Russia, India. Analysis &#8211; By Dr. Paul G. Buchanan. Although it may irk the okkers, Australia can ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Pacific Fibre Issue &#8211; Has The US Gone Too Far?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 03:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Pacific Fibre Issue &#8211; Has The US Gone Too Far? Analysis &#8211; By Selwyn Manning. On Thursday morning Interest.co.nz&#8216;s Alex Tarrant reported that the Kiwi Pacific Fibre cable project was sunk by US fears about Chinese investment, and espionage. Interest.co.nz&#8216;s main contact was New Zealand-based invester Rod Drury who said: “It was made clear ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Analytic Brief: Managing Policy Fade</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Analytic Brief: Managing Policy Fade* From time to time 36th Parallel Assessments offers analytic briefs on subjects of diplomatic, geopolitical and strategic interest. This week’s topic is policy fade. Analysis &#8211; By Paul G. Buchanan. Deployment of Fijian soldiers and police as UN peacekeepers after the 2006 military coup in that country is a good ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fiji&#8217;s Military Regime Deploys More Personnel To UN Ops Than Australia, Canada, New Zealand Combined</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/07/13/fijis-military-regime-deploys-more-personnel-to-un-ops-than-australia-canada-new-zealand-combined/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fiji&#8217;s Military Regime Deploys More Personnel To UN Ops Than Australia, Canada, New Zealand Combined Dispatch/Forecast &#8211; by Selwyn Manning. Since the 2006 Fiji coup Commodore Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama&#8217;s military-led government has remained fully engaged with the United Nations while incrementally increasing the number of troops and police it contributes to UN peacekeeping operations to ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Interview: 95bFM&#8217;s Simon Maude IVs Selwyn Manning On The Washington Declaration</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/06/21/interview-95bfms-simon-maude-ivs-selwyn-manning-on-the-washington-declaration/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview: 95bFM&#8217;s Simon Maude IVs Selwyn Manning On New Zealand Signing the USA&#8217;s Washington Declaration Military Pact 95bFM The Wire Counter-Clockwise Bulletin &#8211; Recorded live on 21/06/12: Main Points &#8211; On Wednesday June 20, New Zealand&#8217;s Minister of Defence Jonathan Coleman met with the United States&#8217; secretary of defense Leon Panetta at the Pentagon in ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interview: Selwyn Manning IVs Labour&#8217;s Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Phil Goff On NZ&#8217;s UN Security Council Bid</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 06:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview: Selwyn Manning IVs Labour&#8217;s Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Phil Goff On NZ&#8217;s UN Security Council Bid Triangle TV, LiveNews.co.nz: Important Points &#8211; New Zealand&#8217;s former Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff reveals that Australia&#8217;s former PM Kevin Rudd, abandoned a pledge agreed in 2004 between Canada, New Zealand and Australia, that New Zealand would be next ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interview: 95bFM&#8217;s Simon Maude IVs Selwyn Manning On The Implications Of New Zealand Signing A NATO Security Pact</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 02:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview: 95bFM&#8217;s Simon Maude IVs Selwyn Manning On The Implications Of New Zealand Signing A NATO Security Pact 95bFM’s The Wire – Recorded live on 7/06/12: Selwyn Manning &#038; Simon Maude discuss the implications of New Zealand signing a NATO security pact titled Individual Partnership Cooperation Programme (IPCP). Background: This week New Zealand Prime Minister ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Analysis: New Zealand&#8217;s United Nations Security Council Bid</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 00:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Analysis: New Zealand&#8217;s United Nations Security Council Bid. 36th Parallel Assessments &#8211; Analysis By Dr Paul G. Buchanan Introduction:On May 24, 2012the foreign ministers of the United States of America and New Zealand met for bilateral meetings after the conclusion of the NATO Summit in Chicago. Afghanistan, Syria and Myanmar were topics of discussion, but ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Status of Forces Report Part 2: Military Professionalism in the South Pacific.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 03:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Status of Forces Report Part 2: Military Professionalism in the South Pacific. 36th Parallel Assessment Series – By Paul G. Buchanan Introduction: In Part One of the the Status of Forces series, 36th Parallel Assessments offered an overview of typologies of military forces and civil-military relations. Designed as an introduction to the subject for readers ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – May 07 2012</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 10:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – May 07 2012 36th Parallel Assessments [RSSjb feed=&#8221;feed://36th-parallel.com/feed/&#8221; num=&#8221;5&#8243; pubdate=&#8221;true&#8221; excerpt=&#8221;false&#8221; charex=&#8221;250&#8243; list=&#8221;ul&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; pubauthor=&#8221;false&#8221;] France/French Polynesia: Left-wing candidate François Hollande has defeated incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in Sunday&#8217;s runoff, exit polls say, becoming the first Socialist to win a presidential election since François Mitterrand in 1988. According to Ipsos polling ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interview: Why Australia &#038; NZ Have Taken A Softly Approach Over Papua New Guinea&#8217;s Crisis</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 23:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview: Glenn Williams IVs Selwyn Manning on Why Australia &#038; NZ Have Taken A Softly Approach Over Papua New Guinea&#8217;s Crisis Introduction: As Papua New Guinea struggles to maintain order in the face of two clashing political factions, its two southern neighbors Australia and New Zealand are compelled to tread a soft diplomatic line rather ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 06:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – May 03 2012 36th Parallel Assessments [RSSjb feed=&#8221;feed://36th-parallel.com/feed/&#8221; num=&#8221;5&#8243; pubdate=&#8221;true&#8221; excerpt=&#8221;false&#8221; charex=&#8221;250&#8243; list=&#8221;ul&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; pubauthor=&#8221;false&#8221;] Australia/New Zealand/Papua New Guinea: &#8211; Analysis by Selwyn Manning &#8211; As Papua New Guinea struggles to maintain order in the face of two clashing political factions, its two southern neighbors Australia and New Zealand are ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Papua New Guinea Crisis – Australia and New Zealand&#8217;s Challenge</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/05/03/the-papua-new-guinea-crisis-australia-and-new-zealands-challenge/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 01:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Papua New Guinea Crisis – Australia and New Zealand&#8217;s Challenge Weekly Analysis &#8211; By Selwyn Manning. As Papua New Guinea struggles to maintain order in the face of two clashing political factions, its two southern neighbors Australia and New Zealand are compelled to tread a soft diplomatic line rather than risk destroying progressive rapprochement with ]]></description>
		
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		<title>36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – April 30 2012</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – April 30 2012 36th Parallel Assessments [RSSjb feed=&#8221;feed://36th-parallel.com/feed/&#8221; num=&#8221;5&#8243; pubdate=&#8221;true&#8221; excerpt=&#8221;false&#8221; charex=&#8221;250&#8243; list=&#8221;ul&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; pubauthor=&#8221;false&#8221;] Fiji: Fiji’s Acting Prime Minister and Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum has asked the Pacific Islands Forum Ministerial Contact Group to support the Bainimarama Government&#8217;s efforts to take the country to the 2014 general election. He ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – April 27 2012</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/04/27/36th-parallel-regional-news-round-up-april-27-2012/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 04:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – April 27 2012 36th Parallel Assessments [RSSjb feed=&#8221;feed://36th-parallel.com/feed/&#8221; num=&#8221;5&#8243; pubdate=&#8221;true&#8221; excerpt=&#8221;false&#8221; charex=&#8221;250&#8243; list=&#8221;ul&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; pubauthor=&#8221;false&#8221;] Pacific Region: Analysis &#8211; By economist Professor Wadan Narsey &#8211; If this was a news release by a geologist, alarm bells would be ringing around the Pacific and international scientific community. But retitle it “Pacific ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – April 26 2012</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[36th Parallel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – April 26 2012 36th Parallel Assessments [RSSjb feed=&#8221;feed://36th-parallel.com/feed/&#8221; num=&#8221;5&#8243; pubdate=&#8221;true&#8221; excerpt=&#8221;false&#8221; charex=&#8221;250&#8243; list=&#8221;ul&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; pubauthor=&#8221;false&#8221;] Australia/Solomon Islands/RAMSI: Australia&#8217;s Defence Minister Stephen Smith says an exit plan is being developed for the defence contingent of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands. Smith is in Honiara and met the Solomons Prime ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – April 23 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – April 23 2012 36th Parallel Assessments [RSSjb feed=&#8221;feed://36th-parallel.com/feed/&#8221; num=&#8221;5&#8243; pubdate=&#8221;true&#8221; excerpt=&#8221;false&#8221; charex=&#8221;250&#8243; list=&#8221;ul&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; pubauthor=&#8221;false&#8221;] West Papua: More than 400 Bintang Kejora (Morning Star) flags have been flown by scores of people on a demonstration in Tanggal, Serui, West Papua, in dramatic defiance of an Indonesian law banning the public ]]></description>
		
		
		
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