The US-Australia Force Posture Agreement has opened the gate for the US to set up Australia as a launching pad for its next war.
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Foreign minister Penny Wong’s end of year trip to Beijing to meet with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi was hailed as an indication that the recently fraught relationship between the two nations was stabilising, especially in terms of the potential to ease sanctions that have long impeded trade.
However, a fortnight earlier, Wong had been in Washington DC to attend the 6 December AUSMIN conference, where her nation and the US noted their joint determination to “counter destabilising military activities by the People’s Republic of China”.
The annual Australia US Ministerial consultation additionally saw the two nation’s deepen their defence cooperation in a number of ways, which include the United States increasing the number of troops it rotates through Australian military bases in the north of the country.
In a further sign that Wong’s trip to China, the first such visit by an Australian foreign minister since 2018, wasn’t such a sincere extension of the olive branch last month’s AUSMIN participants also announced that they’ve invited Japan to integrate into US military operations in Australia.
So, while the Albanese government has pulled back on the overt China rhetoric of its predecessor, and it’s repairing the COVID-era trade breakdown with Beijing, it continues to provide the US with unfettered access to bases with the associations that carries regarding regional military build-up.
By Bevan Ramsden
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Annette Brownlie
Just Peace
23 Jan 2023