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Geoff Raby

Why a different world order is already here

US primacy is being replaced by two orders led by Washington and Beijing. Canberra’s job is to make the US understand what has happened.

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Geoff Raby was Australia’s ambassador to China, 2007-2011. His book Great Game On: the contest for Central Asia and Global Supremacy will be published in November by Melbourne University Press.

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