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Australia cannot be ‘passive bystanders’ in a war over Taiwan, Richard Marles says A war between the US and China over the future of Taiwan would be “so grave” that Australia cannot be “passive bystanders”, the defence minister has said. Richard Marles pushed back at the idea advanced by some commentators – including the former Labor prime minister Paul Keating – that Taiwan is “not a vital Australian interest”.
Speaking during a visit to South Korea, Marles said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was “a failure of deterrence” and “our job is to ensure we experience no equivalent failure in our region”. In an address to the Seoul Defence Dialogue on Wednesday evening, he said: The most consequential risk we face is the resumption of great power conflict in our lifetime. Nowhere will this be more important than on the issue of Taiwan.
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