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Rory Medcalf

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Rory Medcalf

@Rory_Medcalf

Professor Rory Medcalf AM | Head of the National Security College, Australian National University | Indo-Pacific strategy | An independent Australian worldview

Canberra

Joined November 2008

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Rory Medcalf
@Rory_Medcalf
Nov 5, 2025
Deep appreciation to the Governor-General of Australia, Her Excellency The Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, for taking the time and trouble today to discuss the Community Consultations initiative and its place in the wider @NSC_ANU mission for a secure Australian future
ANU National Security College
@NSC_ANU
Nov 5, 2025
Today we had the great privilege of briefing the Governor-General of Australia on the College’s Community Consultations initiative. Head of College, @Rory_Medcalf, and Director of Community Consultations, Tim Wilford, joined Her Excellency to discuss how understanding Australian
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Rory Medcalf
@Rory_Medcalf
Jul 10, 2022
I prefer a library where the books are not censored
Erik Solheim
@ErikSolheim
Jul 10, 2022
Bravo China 🇨🇳! This is not a shopping mall, this is Guangzhou Library.😃😃😃
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Rory Medcalf
@Rory_Medcalf
May 24, 2023
Twenty years ago my Indian friends called me the loneliest man in Delhi for my advocacy of Australia-India strategic ties. Patience rewards
Anthony Albanese
@AlboMP
May 24, 2023
Sydney turning it up for Indian Prime Minister @narendramodi 🇦🇺🇮🇳
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Rory Medcalf
@Rory_Medcalf
May 8, 2025
Particularly disappointing that so much media seems to refer to what happened at Pahalgam as a ‘militant’ attack instead of what it was - a deliberate terrorist massacre of civilians, calculated and executed as a provocation
Nirupama Menon Rao 🇮🇳
@NMenonRao
May 7, 2025
⸻ Pakistani voices are actively shaping the global narrative on CNN, BBC, and Al Jazeera—projecting their version of events, loud and clear. Silence from the other side only strengthens their position. India and our official voices must not stay quiet. Press conferences while
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Rory Medcalf
@Rory_Medcalf
Aug 28, 2017
Both sides will claim victory at Doklam - but if Chinese road building has ceased, then India has won this round
Rory Medcalf
@Rory_Medcalf
Jun 3, 2020
Absolutely on the contrary. It’s the kind of respect that will yet save America and democracy. If this had happened in China on June 4 1989 it would have changed the course of history.
Ian Miles Cheong
@ianmiles
Jun 3, 2020
National Guardsmen kneel to protesters. I'm sure China and Russia are laughing their asses off right now. x.com/piotr_texel/st…
Rory Medcalf
@Rory_Medcalf
Aug 28, 2017
Right across the Indo-Pacific, India's balance of firmness and diplomacy may well become a case study in handling Chinese coercion
Rory Medcalf
@Rory_Medcalf
Feb 24, 2022
Powerful moment - Ukraine calls for Russia to relinquish the Chair of the UN Security Council. “You declared the war … it is the responsibility of this council to stop the war.”
Rory Medcalf
@Rory_Medcalf
Jun 17, 2020
Important data point. Does this mean China does not want to tell its people about the PLA’s first deadly clash in decades - because things did not go well (for anyone) and there are risks of escalation which the CCP leadership cannot control?
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Rory Medcalf
@Rory_Medcalf
Dec 1, 2022
Finland achieves the rare combination of being a small and progressive democracy providing an exceptional quality of life while being utterly serious about its national and economic security - lost opportunity for Australians to learn how it can be done
Mia Kennedy
@Mia__Kennedy
Dec 1, 2022
ONE question about Finland, then EVERY other question from Sarah Ferguson was about age & gender & dancing. Sanna Marin: "Well, actually, there wasn't that many people that criticise, it was more journalists and media that made this media spectacle or frenzy out of it." #abc730
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Rory Medcalf
@Rory_Medcalf
Aug 28, 2017
Now India provides a case study in how to counter Chinese coercion on land too #Doklam
Zack Cooper
@ZackCooper
May 9, 2017
We've spent the last two years figuring out how to counter Chinese coercion -- read our concise 300-page study here: csis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/pu…
Rory Medcalf
@Rory_Medcalf
Aug 28, 2017
Japan 2010-2013 and India 2017 show that resistance to China can lead to Beijing backing off
Rory Medcalf
@Rory_Medcalf
Feb 1, 2022
First day back, and honoured to receive this letter from Indian PM ⁦@narendramodi⁩ commending my work on Australia-India relations and the Indo-Pacific concept. Thanks to all the colleagues, friends and institutions sharing this journey
Rory Medcalf
@Rory_Medcalf
Aug 10, 2022
There it is. Chinese ambassador to Australia just indicated, in words to that effect, that it is Chinese policy to re-educate Taiwanese people after the PRC takes control of the island @PressClubAust