24 July 2018

Fresh calls for Australia to challenge Beijing's South China Sea island claims

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

Director of the USSC foreign policy and defence program Ashley Townshend is quoted in this report published by the Australian Financial Review.

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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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