The comfort blanket of shared history obscures the fact that Britain and Australia have many complementary assets to offer in their relations with the rest of the Indo-Pacific.
In the midst of a security crisis in Ukraine and a domestic political crisis that may unseat Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Britain’s foreign and defence ministers have chosen to fly to the other side of the world for talks with their Australian counterparts.
It looks like a strange decision at first glance.
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Ben Bland is the Director of the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House and the author of Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and Struggle to Remake Indonesia.
