Asia-Pacific Policy Analyst

John Lee

3 articles 2010–2018

John Lee is a foreign policy analyst and commentator specializing in Asia-Pacific affairs, with particular focus on China, Australia, and U.S. strategic interests in the region. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard between 2010 and 2018, writing about Australian politics and American policy toward China.

Why Australia's Socialist Prime Minister Now Loves America

March 10, 2011 · China, Japan, Australia

As the secretary of the extreme left-wing group Socialist Forum during her student days in the mid 1980s, Australian prime minister Julia Gillard put her name to pamphlets advocating the end of the ANZUS alliance with the United States and the scrapping of the U.S.-Australian Pine Gap military…