With AUKUS, Australia has wedded itself to a risky US policy on China – and turned a deaf ear to the region
- Written by Matt Fitzpatrick, Professor in International History, Flinders University
Stefan Rousseau/APMuch has been made of Australia’s renewed engagement with Asia and the Pacific since Labor came to power.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s “charm offensive” in the Pacific was seen as the beginning of a new process of listening to the region, not dictating to it. Labor’s Asia-Pacific policy has also...
