
Australia's security in China's shadow
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AUKUS: A Comprehensive View of Chinese Security Challenge
AUKUS is an intensification and a follow-through from the defence strategic review that Australia handed down in 2020. It would be extremely expensive and hard, if not impossible, for Australia to defend its interests alone. So I think it's a doubling down on the alliance. But consciously on Australia's part, very interestingly given all of the political difficulties around the time when it was brokered in the Trump administration, it was a clear bet that the alliance was the best option for Australia.
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