Australia recently celebrated a thawing in its trade relationship with China. Could the latest AUKUS developments put it back on ice?
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese seemed to be trying to inject some calm after Monday's joint AUKUS announcement that Japan would be considered as a partner for the alliance rattled China. "What is proposed is to look at 'pillar two' of AUKUS and look at a project-by-project basis, whether there would be engagement, and Japan is a natural candidate for that to occur," Albanese said at a press conference in Canberra on Tuesday.
"It would be hard to characterise AUKUS as anything but an effort to counter and contain China because that is what it is." Shortis said the bigger problem with the agreement itself is that it's causing "unnecessary" instability between China and Australia. "I think the potential for it to generate or accelerate an arms race is very real … this kind of forward defence policy that AUKUS represents increases that risk.
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