The Importance of Primacy in the Australian Government

Primacy has lots of meanings. It's the expectation America will always prevail in a showdown. The US demonstrated its primacy when there's a flare up in the Clinton administration in the Taiwan Strait. That can't happen today. China learned, every country learns from a strategic setback like that. And they responded appropriately, their wealth increased. They did what any nation on the rise does. Australia had reveled in the primacy. But it knows it hasn't got that easy capacity to prevail today. Hence the pressure on Canberra. So to Mad Orca sort of thing.