His Repositioning of Australia Is Going To Shape Our Century
Whether he is re-elected later this year or not, Australia is going to have to live with Scott Morrison’s foreign policy decisions for a long time.
To a much greater extent than John Howard, Scott Morrison has changed Australia’s alignments in the geopolitical world. Once, courtesy of Paul Keating, inching in the direction of aligning our diplomatic stance with our trade relations – that is with the emerging South East Asian Nations and China, we are now firmly back in the Anglosphere.
Notionally, as in World War I, we are an ally of Japan. We also have a strategic alignment with India – but not with Pakistan, Sri Lanka or much of the pro-Beijing world.
Writing in the Lowy Institute’s Interpreter, Paul Kelly says: “When he became Prime Minister in 2018, Scott Morrison was a foreign policy amateur confronted by unprecedented challenges: an assertive Beijing and a looming rivalry between the two biggest economies in world history, the United States and China. Morrison lunged into foreign and security policy by making highly contentious changes that will be felt for decades, not least the historic decision to build nuclear-powered submarines.”
Read further on the Interpreter.
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