ANU’s Emeritus Professor of Strategic Studies Professor Hugh White says China is an “exceptionally powerful and exceptionally determined” country as the nation looks to lead Eastern Asia and the Western Pacific.
“I don’t think the United States can defeat China in a naval war
over an issue like Taiwan for example,” he told Sky News Australia.
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