Australia’s ‘strategic infantilisation’ by the US is undermining our security in Asia
- Written by Mark Beeson, Adjunct Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
Agonising about Australia’s place in the scheme of things has been the principal pastime of policymakers since our notional independence.
As Michael Wesley argues persuasively in Blind Spot: Southeast Asia and Australia’s Future, our “government and society suffer from a form of strategic long sightedness”. We reflexively...





