Quarterly Essay 86: Sleepwalk to War by Hugh White
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Quarterly Essay 86: Sleepwalk to War
- Australia’s Unthinking Alliance with America
- By: Hugh White
- Narrated by: Hugh White
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Politics & Government
Publisher's Summary
In this gripping essay, Hugh White explores Australia’s fateful choice to back America to the hilt and oppose China. What led both sides of politics to align with America so absolutely? Is this a case of sleepwalking to war? What tests might a new government face?
White assesses America’s credibility and commitment, by examining AUKUS, the Quad, Trump and Biden. He discusses what the Ukraine conflict tells us about the future. And he argues that the US can neither contain China nor win a war over Taiwan. So where does this leave our future security and prosperity in Asia? Is there a better way to navigate the disruption caused by China's rise?
This is a powerful and original essay by Australia’s leading strategic thinker.
Hugh White is the author of The China Choice and How to Defend Australia, and the acclaimed Quarterly Essays Power Shift and Without America. He is emeritus professor of strategic studies at ANU and was the principal author of Australia’s Defence White Paper 2000.
©2022 Hugh White (P)2022 Audible Australia Pty Ltd.
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Essential perspective
Few books have the courage to question and challenge the status quo of the over reliance on the US alliance with America. The presumption America will come to our aid as they weaken in the global arena, the rise of China and Australia’s relationship to our pacific and Asian neighbours has been a blundering failure of poor engagement, arrogance and misunderstanding of the real intentions and understanding of the Geo strategic environment understood by nations close in proximity to china.
Taiwan will be the deciding factor over who holds strategic hegemony in this region. We are I’ll prepared for conflict, over reliant on the US, and our foreign policy is basically america will save us. I wouldn’t put my cards there. We need to build better relationships whilst maintaining sovereignty without all my he idiotic chest beating of the Morrison era. And we need a coherent sensible foreign policy that stands alone from whatever the US wants. China is here to stay it’s not going away and it will only get more bold and more assertive in the region we need to learn to work with them. White is a really good voice in this area. His thinking is against the mainstream and hence should be considered in our own strategic thinking because failure to listen could see us grossly unprepared for the challenges our nation and our region will face this century. Highly recommend this read.