Event information

Thursday 10 October 2024
6:00pm for 6:15pm – 7:15pm AEST (IN-PERSON)

National Press Club 16 National Circuit, Barton
6:15pm – 7:15pm AEST (LIVE STREAM)

Free admission for students

Join us for 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 debate these questions, please join us for a conversation with Dr Michael Green (in Sydney) and Professor Hugh White AO (in Canberra) and 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.

Professor Hugh White AO

Emeritus Professor of Strategic Studies at the Australian National University

Susannah Patton

Director of the Southeast Asia Program and Project Lead for the Asia Power Index at the Lowy Institute

Hervé Lemahieu

Director of Research at the Lowy Institute

Richard McGregor (Chair)

Senior Fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute

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