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The war in Ukraine is seen as a proxy battle between liberalism and authoritarianism, between NATO and Russian re-expansionism. The success or failure of Ukraine will have repercussions across the world, including in the Indo-Pacific. China’s ascendancy as a threat in the region comes now as the economy falters. In the US, the Federal Reserve is finally taming inflation, helping the world’s biggest economy to settle, but politics remains hyper-polarised and explosive as we head into the 2024 presidential election cycle. Amid all this uncertainty, Australian entrepreneurs, financiers, diplomats, executives, political operators, artists and sportsmen and women are marking their...