ISSUE 23, MARCH 2025

AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Contributors 2 Editor’s Note 3

James Curran Continental gift 6 Emma Shortis Daddy issues 26

Susan Stone No deal 45

Kim Beazley, Joe Hockey & Arthur Sinodinos

The Ambassadors’ Briefings 63

The Fix

David Heslop & Joel Keep on How Australia Can Lead a New Era of Non-­proliferation 85

Reviews

Richard McGregor On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism

Is Shaping China and the World 92 Richard Pomfret Great Game On: The Contest for Central Asia and Global Supremacy 95

Thom Woodroofe Landing the Paris Agreement: How It Happened,

Why It Matters, and What Comes Next 99

Correspondence “Fateful Mix”: Benjamin Moffitt, Asha Clementi;

response by Michael Wesley 104

The Back Page 112