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The Alliance | If the US and China go to war, whose side are we on? Kevin Rudd answers
Fear of China and Japan has long defined Australia's foreign policy. Could there be a new way forward?
In the third episode of The Alliance, Hamish McDonald and Geraldine Doogue put that question to Kevin Rudd: former prime minister, former foreign minister, and, until recently, Australia's ambassador to the United States.
Rudd makes the case for what he calls "ANZUS Plus": not a straight bet on Washington, but a widening web of security arrangements layered on top of the US alliance rather than instead of it.
He defends the joint facilities in the Northern Territory and Western Australia as…
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