Australia unveils new defence strategy, with eye on ‘coercive’ China

Australia unveiled its first National Defence Strategy on Wednesday, signalling a new focus on deterring China’s “coercive tactics” in a region seen as lurching towards conflict. The 80-page document offers a gloomy assessment of Pacific security and sets out a massive increase in defence spending to retool Australia’s military to cope. “The optimistic assumptions that […]

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