Foreign policy must focus on ‘the rest’, not just team West
Most of our neighbours are part of the Global South. It follows that a serious appreciation of – and policy response to – its concerns would benefit our regional interests.
A hallmark of Australian foreign policy is being on the team.
This was evident with the immediacy of our involvement in the two world wars, and our post-war roles in Korea, Vietnam and the Middle East. It is now apparent in the clarity of our alignment on both China and Ukraine. We don’t sit things out.
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John McCarthy is a former ambassador to Vietnam, the United States, Indonesia and Japan, a high commissioner to India, and a senior adviser to Asialink.
