Former Labor foreign minister Gareth Evans believes it is an open question whether Washington will feel obliged to “rush to our military defence if we are ever seriously threatened”.
He is even more sceptical on the case of Australian reliance on US extended nuclear deterrence, writing that it “defies credibility to think that Washington would risk losing Los Angeles to save Sydney, or for that matter Seoul or Tokyo”.
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James Curran is The Australian Financial Review’s International Editor and professor of modern history at Sydney University.
