Launch of the 2024 Asia Power Index: Is Asia multipolar?

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.