23 February 2022

Ukraine crisis saddles Washington with Indo-Pacific dilemma

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

Asia allies fear Biden administration will be distracted from newly minted regional strategy, reports the Financial Times with comments from USSC director of foreign policy and defence.

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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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