Australia must give primacy to national security, but lessons of the past show it does not have to destroy the strong relationship with Beijing built over five decades.
A lifetime of expanding Australian engagement with the world’s second-biggest economy is at risk of coming to an end.
A great coupling, initiated by the Hawke and Keating governments, is threatening to become a great decoupling, a process started by the Trump Administration and followed in important respects by Australia.
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Craig Emerson is managing director of Emerson Economics. He is a distinguished fellow at the ANU, director of the Australian APEC Study Centre at RMIT and adjunct professor at Victoria University’s College of Business.
