The 2020 defence strategic update has been a welcome first step for many who see Australia’s place in the world and our region become increasingly insecure. Beijing’s recent demonstration of its willingness to leverage its economic weight to punish unwanted behaviour has contributed to existing anxieties about Chinese military expansion in the South China Sea and the wider region.
China’s rise has coincided with the apparent decline of Asia’s regional security guarantor. With the United States’ once unassailable political, economic and military power now looking like it will be seriously tested in the decades to come, the plan to upgrade Australia’s own deterrence capabilities laid out in the update seems eminently desirable, if not entirely necessary. However, there’s little point in investing heavily in the development and acquisition of those capabilities if the ‘other elements’ of national power mentioned in the update are neglected.
Read more: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australias-foreign-policy-needs-a-strategic-update/
China’s rise has coincided with the apparent decline of Asia’s regional security guarantor. With the United States’ once unassailable political, economic and military power now looking like it will be seriously tested in the decades to come, the plan to upgrade Australia’s own deterrence capabilities laid out in the update seems eminently desirable, if not entirely necessary. However, there’s little point in investing heavily in the development and acquisition of those capabilities if the ‘other elements’ of national power mentioned in the update are neglected.
Read more: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australias-foreign-policy-needs-a-strategic-update/
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