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It’s time for Australia to be a ‘smart power’ country
AUKUS shows the Morrison government’s hard power mindset. But getting the balance right with soft power assets is essential to further the national interest.
John McCarthyFormer Australian ambassadorFor Australia, it’s been a hard power year.
Hard power is about military capacity or the threat to exercise it. Economic power used coercively can also be so categorised.
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