Toward Decline
It’s time the West genuinely accepted China’s global ascent
South China Morning Post Major outlet·2026-06-17China EconomyP1: Resource SovereigntyP5: Strategic DecouplingP7: Alliance Architecture
Why it matters
The article underscores China's consolidated dominance in critical supply chains, rare earths, and green technologies—core vulnerabilities for Australian Resource Sovereignty (Pillar 1) and Decoupling (Pillar 5). This thematic development reinforces the structural risk that Australia's economic leverage has diminished relative to Beijing's, raising the probability of coercive scenarios and eroding allied confidence in Western cohesion (Pillar 7).
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