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Hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent by the Australian government on a new arms race that includes long-range missiles that can reach China. This is money that should be better spent on health, welfare education, justice for First Nations people and addressing the climate emergency instead of on handouts to corporate arms dealers. At the same time, but a little more under the radar, is Australia’s participation in the 50th anniversary of the Five Power Defence Arrangements which includes provocative military exercises with Britain, Malaysia, Singapore and New Zealand this month, ...

Australians do not benefit from a war with China 12 May 2021, 16:52 GMT+10 Recent rhetoric on war is more about supporting the highly lucrative defence industry as it is about countering the rise of China, writes Dr Rashad Seedeen. The COALITION GOVERNMENT is increasingly acting like its loud-mouthed, redneck cousin in the U.S.; full of bluster with little follow-through. It all began when Secretary of Home Affairs, Mike Pezzullo, informed his staff in an ANZAC Day speech that once again the "drums of war" were beating. Newly minted Defence Minister but always thin-skinned, Peter Dutton, affi...

Stuff's Thoma Manch taking part in an online press briefing on Xinjiang organsied by the PRC embassy last week. Photo: Robert Kitchin of Stuff (used by permission) Are you confident you are on the right side of history?” Newshub political editor Tova O’Brien asked foreign minister Nanaia Mahuta on the Newshub Nation show the weekend before last.  But the minister was not about to commit to following suit on national television.  “I'm willing to get information about what we could do. I'm open to getting advice about this issue," she told Newshub Nation.  There was plenty of that ...

As he says, “the second-most powerful nation [China] wants to overtake the most powerful nation [US]. This has happened 16 times in the past 500 years and war has resulted on 12 of those occasions.” The University of Sydney scholar David Brophy argues that the long-term Australian reliance on US power in the Asia Pacific makes local elites particularly terrified about the consequence of a US withdrawal from the region. As a result, the rhetoric from Australian politicians and military leaders might be seen as directed as much at the Americans as at the Chinese – an attempt to g...

MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content at 1:20 pm on May 5, 2021 | 50 comments I was reading this piece by Dr David Brophy, senior lecturer in Modern Chinese History at University of Sydney, at Domain and it was all going quite nicely: Morrison Government has talking up war in Taiwan for political purposes. Australians do not agree that we should join any war around Taiwan. Such a war could turn into a nuclear disaster. So far, so good. I was nodding in agreement. But then came this: US strategic power in north Asia serves only itself. Any war in Taiwan would be purely self-interested a...