Labor's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Penny Wong, has sounded the alarm about China's growing influence over global bodies and potential ambitions to remake them to suit the interests of authoritarian states | Gallo_Ways
, including an anti-ballistic missile defence shield for deployed forces, warning the world hasn't known a time of strategic uncertainty like this since the 1930s and '40s.
"For Australia, these trends comprise fundamental challenges. Our strategic environment has deteriorated, risks have heightened, opportunities narrowed, and protecting and promoting our national interests is going to be much harder." She says "we need to be sober about the impacts of the deteriorating US-China relationship" but disengagement with Beijing is not an option.
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