Toward Decline
Chinese FM calls for joint efforts with Australia to sustain improving ties - Xinhua
Why it matters
This article signals China's continued effort to drive a wedge between Australia and its US alliance partners by proposing bilateral engagement separate from great-power competition. Acceptance of such overtures would undermine AUKUS cohesion and the Alliance pillar (Pillar 7), potentially creating space for US strategic retrenchment in the Indo-Pacific and weakening Australia's Decoupling posture (Pillar 5).
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