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Australia Should Work With China, Not Try to Contain It - The Diplomat – Asia-Pacific Current Affairs Magazine

GNews: China Australia·2026-09-04AllianceP7: Alliance ArchitectureP5: Strategic Decoupling
Why it matters

This opinion piece advocates a fundamental strategic reorientation away from the containment consensus underpinning AUKUS, Quad coordination, and alliance cohesion in the Indo-Pacific. If such a pivot were adopted, it would erode Australia's Alliance pillar (7) and decouple Australia from Decoupling (5) — the coordinated effort to reduce economic and security exposure to China.

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This development bears on 2 of the eight pillars of Australian preparedness — the overall picture right now is 5/100.

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