Albanese will need to explain how Australia’s investment in more lethal defence capabilities will make the Indo-Pacific safer – and ensure conflict never occurs
that he believed a war with China was coming as soon as 2025. While US officials have distanced themselves from his comments, these undisciplined remarks help normalise the idea of conflict between the two superpowers.Wong’s speech in Washington in
, released by the Lowy Institute this week, confirms that US-China competition is likely to be the defining feature of the Indo-Pacific in the decades ahead. Our data, which maps the power of 26 countries in Asia, shows that a growing chasm separates the US and China from the next most powerful countries in Asia. China is nearly twice as powerful as either India or Japan.
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