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AUKUS about ‘projecting power’ north, says Sinodinos

Matthew Cranston

Washington| The new AUKUS defence arrangement should be about “projecting power” north to the Indo-Pacific region to maintain peace, not just protecting the Australian coastline, Arthur Sinodinos, Australia’s ambassador to the US, has told military experts.

In his first official intervention since Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States created the alliance around a nuclear-powered submarine deal, Mr Sinodinos also told conservative think tank the Hudson Institute that regime change in China was never a part of the plan, despite Beijing’s increasing aggression and economic coercion in the region.

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Matthew Cranston was The Australian Financial Review’s United States correspondent. Connect with Matthew on Twitter. Email Matthew at mcranston@afr.com

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