Making Mischief in the South China Sea

16 July 2016

Ashley Townshend
Director, Foreign Policy and Defence, United States Studies Centre
Richard Fontaine
President, Center for a New American Security

Research fellow Ashley Townshend, Alliance 21 fellow Richard Fontaine and visiting professor Linda Jakobson in The Sydney Morning Herald.

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Ashley Townshend
Director, Foreign Policy and Defence, United States Studies Centre
Ashley Townshend is Director, Foreign Policy and Defence at the United States Studies Centre. He works on US-Asia relations, alliance politics, and international security. He also lectures at the University of Sydney and previously worked at the Lowy Institute for International Policy.
Richard Fontaine
President, Center for a New American Security
Richard Fontaine was the Alliance 21 Program Fellow at the US Studies Centre from July to August 2016. Fontaine is the President of the Centre for a New American Security. Previously, Fontaine was a foreign policy advisor to Senator John McCain for more than five years and has also worked at the State Department, the National Security Council and on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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