https://www.policyforum.net/macron-trip-chance-australia-france-sing-tune/ The APPS Policy Forum a public policy website devoted to Asia and the Pacific. Thu, 28 Jun 2018 00:22:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 https://www.policyforum.net/macron-trip-chance-australia-france-sing-tune/#comment-11722 Wed, 02 May 2018 00:38:16 +0000 https://www.policyforum.net/?p=24343#comment-11722 This analysis of the congruence of Australian and French interests in our three great oceans: Pacific, Southern and Indian, is profound. The meetings this week between President Macron and Prime Minister Turnbull must be only the beginning of a deep new dialogue between our two countries with so much in common – all the way back to Villers-Bretonneux, and French explorers in earlier times. However we must first get over the fixation on the Quad proposal and instead focus on the AFIJU (Australia, France, India, Japan, USA) grouping that adds the French dialogue with India, USA and now Australia to the Quad.

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