In Australia’s post-US future, we must find our own way with China

In Australia’s post-US future, we must find our own way with China

The Canberra establishment thinks we must depend on Washington more than ever in today’s hard new world. That misses a vital point, Hugh White writes in this Quarterly Essay extractSign up for a weekly email featuring our best readsThanks to US regional strategic primacy, Australia has been virtually immune from the threat of direct military attack since the defeat of Japan in 1945. Now that is changing. In future it will no longer be militarily…