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Launch of the 2024 Asia Power Index: (Sydney) Is Asia multipolar?
This Sydney event marked the launch of the 2024 Asia Power Index, the Lowy Institute's annual assessment of the distribution of power among 27 countries in Asia.
In Asia, a battle of narratives rages. Many believe China is already an unassailably dominant force, while US primacists see it as weak, vulnerable and ultimately containable. Still others, including US allies such as Australia and Japan, tout the emergence of a multipolar Indo-Pacific that could arrest China's ambitions for regional hegemony.
What do the findings of the Asia Power Index say about these prevailing narratives? And what role can third countries play in Asia's power politics and in its regional order?
To explore these questions, Dr Michael Green joined two Lowy Institute scholars – Project Lead for the Asia Power Index Susannah Patton and the Institute's Director of Research Hervé Lemahieu, who developed the Index in 2018 – for an in-depth conversation, chaired by Sam Roggeveen, Director of the International Security Program at the Lowy Institute.
Featuring
Michael J Green
Michael Jonathan Green is a former Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute.
Susannah Patton
Susannah Patton is Director, Asia Engagement at RMIT and a Nonresident fellow at the Lowy Institute.
Hervé Lemahieu
Hervé Lemahieu was a senior researcher at the Lowy Institute and served as Director of Research from 2021 to 2025.
Sam Roggeveen
Sam Roggeveen is Program Director of the Lowy Institute’s International Security Program. He is the author of The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace (Opens in new window), published by La Trobe University Press in 2023.
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