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Past communiqu\u00e9s<\/a> from\u00a0Australia\u2013US Ministerial Consultations often contained pages on international developments and few \u2018action items\u2019 shaping what the US and Australia really do. Wednesday\u2019s joint statement<\/a> reverses that pattern by offering a long list of practical measures.<\/p>\n

This starts with plans to deliver urgent medical equipment and know-how to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and others in a region that looks to be only on the early foothills of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

At the harder end of the security spectrum, we have a commitment to \u2018increased and regularized maritime cooperation\u2019, while the allies \u2018strengthened their resolve to support Taiwan\u2019.<\/p>\n

Australia is coy about saying it will send ships or aircraft inside Beijing\u2019s South China Sea maritime claims, now described as \u2018not valid under international law\u2019. Perhaps we have already done this in recent military exercises. There will be many such opportunities coming up.<\/p>\n

What is more important is that Washington and Canberra are letting Beijing know that threats to Taiwan and further adventurism in the South China Sea will be resisted. There will be no repeat of the Obama administration\u2019s dithering over rocks and shoals.<\/p>\n

Supporting that allied precision is a list of China\u2019s \u2018coercive and destabilizing actions\u2019, \u2018disinformation efforts\u2019, \u2018campaign of repression of Uyghurs\u2019, undermining of Hong Kong, failure to \u2018negotiate in good faith\u2019 on nuclear weapons, intelligence \u2018targeting of intellectual property and sensitive business information\u2019 and \u2018burdening\u2019 developing countries \u2018with unsustainable debt\u2019.<\/p>\n

The language is calm but exceptionally pointed. From 5G to freedom of navigation operations, it\u2019s clear that Canberra has thought through its own policy prescriptions. The standard Chinese Communist Party line that we are just following Washington should be dismissed as amateurish propaganda.<\/p>\n

Australia and the US are developing closer supply-chain links. Australian rare-earth miner Lynas will receive Pentagon funding to establish a processing plant in Texas. This will reduce American dependence on China for a range of materials critical to defence manufacture: for example, every F-35 contains 418 kilograms of rare-earth materials.<\/p>\n

These connections extend into shared research and investment in technology and innovation. Our cash-starved university system should watch this closely as there are financial benefits for universities that sever research links with Beijing and opt instead for a Five Eyes\u2013friendly research environment.<\/p>\n

The decision \u2018to establish a US-funded commercially operated strategic military fuel reserve in Darwin\u2019 is welcome. The Americans must wonder why we don\u2019t appear to appreciate the strategic value of Darwin as much as they, the Chinese and the Japanese do. No one builds a big petrol station without planning to use it. That suggests we will see significant enhancements to the US Marine Corps presence in northern Australia.<\/p>\n

The AUSMIN communiqu\u00e9 reads like a return to \u2018normal\u2019 US engagement with friends and allies. There is nothing in it that a Biden administration could not live with. It points to the strength of cooperation between like-minded democracies as the best way to resist a growing authoritarian assault on global norms and human decency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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