28 September 2021

AUKUS and the Indo-Pacific: Geopolitics, technology and deterrence

Ashley Townshend
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, United States Studies Centre

The Diplomat’s Asia Geopolitics podcast host Ankit Panda spoke to Ashley Townshend, director of Foreign Policy and Defence at the United States Studies Centre, about the new Australia-United Kingdom-United States trilateral partnership, or AUKUS.

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Ashley Townshend
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, United States Studies Centre
Ashley Townshend is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the United States Studies Centre and Senior Fellow for Indo-Pacific Security at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the founding co-chair of the annual US-Australia Indo-Pacific Deterrence Dialogue and was the Director of Foreign Policy and Defence at the United States Studies Centre from June 2017 to June 2022.

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