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Australian Strategic Policy Institute's Peter Jennings says whatever is going to happen in terms of security in the Indo-Pacific, "it can't be Australia alone".
"This is only something we will only be able to deal with if we have the United States here in significant numbers if we're working very closely with Japan, and hopefully India," he said.
"Australia alone, with six subs or twelve subs, we're not going to be a match for the power that is being assembled in the People's Liberation Army Navy and that's frankly just a reality of the power between various countries.
"I knew from the minute Malcolm Turnbull announced the preferred design of the ships a few years ago we were going to have to upgrade the Collins class and that those submarines would actually be the pointy end of the deterrence spear for at least the next 10-15 years."
Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Peter Jennings says the initial dismissal of the Wuhan lab leak theory as a conspiracy theory has “done damage” to what should have been a more open system of inquiry.
It comes after US President Joe Biden ordered a 90-day probe into the origins of COVID-19, as the theory it was leaked from a lab in Wuhan gains momentum.
“There is now a reasonable prospect that we will get much closer to the truth,” Mr Jennings told Sky News host Peta Credlin.
“And truth is going to look something more like a leak from the Institute of Virology in Wuhan rather than animal to human transfer at a wet market.”
‘High risk’ Afghanistan will fall into the hands of Taliban after troop withdrawal21/04/2021|7min
Western forces should not withdraw all troops from Afghanistan as there is a “high risk” the middle-eastern nation could fall back into the hands of the Taliban within a decade, says the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Peter Jennings.
The United States plans to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by September 11 this year, marking 20 years since the devastating 9/11 attacks which provoked the initial US incursion.
Mr Jennings said the risk around the Taliban taking control of Afghanistan centres on the likelihood of terrorist organisations like Al-Qaeda and Islamic State rooting themselves in the nation where they can “plan to attack the west”.
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