Toward Decline
A national-security asset, filed under ‘finance’
ASPI The Strategist Institutional·2026-06-11FiscalP1: Resource SovereigntyP2: Fiscal EngineP5: Strategic DecouplingP7: Alliance Architecture
Why it matters
The article highlights that Australia's financial system—and the intelligence held by regulators about economic exposure—is now a weaponised domain of statecraft, likely targeting Chinese financial leverage and decoupling vulnerabilities. Recognition of financial architecture as a national-security asset signals both Australian vulnerability to economic statecraft and the need for enhanced financial-system resilience and data-intelligence integration into defence planning.
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