Australia is being coerced into war with China over Taiwan by US strategists, Nury Vittachi writes in Pearls and Irritations this morning.
ANU Professor of strategic studies, Hugh White, wrote in the Australian last week that there is a much greater advantage for Australia to live in a Chinese-dominated Asia than to join a US war over Taiwan. “There is a moral imperative to avoid war, especially nuclear war,” said Professor White.
Australian Strategic Policy Institute director, Peter Jennings, countered with an article confirming that Australia’s regional strategy is to support the continuing US dominance of Asia and the Pacific.
A recent book by US defence strategist Elbridge Colby reveals that the US is deliberately provoking a war with Taiwan to cement an alliance between Japan, South Korea and the Philippines to protect its commercial interests. It is inevitable that Asia will dominate the world’s economy, Colby writes, and the US wants to dominate the region.