The Director-General of the Office of National Intelligence offers a grim assessment of Australia's strategic outlook with Russia and China striking a new pact shortly before the invasion of Ukraine.
One of Australia's top intelligence chiefs says China is intent on establishing "global pre-eminence" and says its "troubling" strategic convergence with Russia will pose new threats to liberal democracies like Australia.
"We see a leader who is really battening down and hardening his country for this struggle to overtake the United States as the world's leading power," he said. Russia and China struck a new "no limits" strategic pact just weeks before Russia's President ordered troops into Ukraine.
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