Payne sensibly says no to Pompeo's coalition of the willing
Australia has avoided joining the Trump administration's new cold war. But big questions about handling the escalating US-China rivalry remain unanswered.
Marise Payne was right when she said, before heading off for Washington this week, that this year’s annual AUSMIN meeting was set to be the most important in years.
It turned out to be very important indeed, because it answered one of the most momentous foreign policy questions Australia has faced for generations: Will we follow America's lead in launching a new cold war against China? But it left some other big questions unanswered.
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Hugh White is the author of The China Choice and How To Defend Australia, and the Quarterly Essays Power Shift, Without America and Sleepwalk to War. He is emeritus professor of strategic studies at ANU.
