https://www.scmp.com/rss/280549/feed Gareth Evans was Australia’s foreign minister (1988-96), president of the International Crisis Group (2000-09), and chancellor of the Australian National University (2010-19). en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Gareth Evans Gareth Evans The Aukus partnership, the 2021 deal whereby the United States and the United Kingdom agreed to provide Australia with at least eight nuclear-propelled submarines over the next three decades, has come under review by the US Defence Department. The prospect of its collapse has generated predictable hand-wringing among those who welcomed the deepening alliance, and especially among those interested in seeing Australia inject billions of dollars into underfunded, underperforming American and... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/asia-opinion/article/3314693/why-australia-should-welcome-collapse-lopsided-aukus-deal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/asia-opinion/article/3314693/why-australia-should-welcome-collapse-lopsided-aukus-deal?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 Jun 2025 08:30:07 +0000 The only thing to lament about the agreement reached by Iran and the world's major powers in Vienna this month is that it was not signed and sealed a decade ago. In the years that it has taken for diplomatic sanity to prevail, the Middle East has endured myriad avoidable tensions and lost opportunities for cooperation. From 2003 to 2006, Iran made clear that it would agree to all the key elements of the recent deal. All it needed in return - beyond, of course, the lifting of sanctions as... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1843460/finally-iranian-nuclear-deal-worth-backing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1843460/finally-iranian-nuclear-deal-worth-backing?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 26 Jul 2015 01:05:59 +0000 One of the worst atrocity crime stories of recent decades has barely registered in the world's collective conscience. We remember and acknowledge the shame of Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. We agonise about the failure to halt the atrocities in Syria. But, at least until now, the world has paid almost no attention to war crimes and crimes against humanity comparable in their savagery to any of these: the killing fields of Sri Lanka in 2009. Three years ago, in the bloody endgame of the Sri... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1073347/sri-lanka-must-face-war-crimes?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1073347/sri-lanka-must-face-war-crimes?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000