A “troubling new strategic convergence” between Beijing and Moscow has developed and the risk of “major power conflict” had grown since Russia invaded Ukraine, Australia’s intelligence chief said on Wednesday. READ:
Andrew Shearer, director general of the Office of National Intelligence, said China’s President Xi Jinping appears to be planning to dominate the Indo-Pacific region and use it as a base to overtake the United States as the world’s leading power.
“We’re going to have to work much harder to maintain the liberal quality of the rules-based order in Europe and here in the Indo-Pacific region,” director-general of the Office of National Intelligence Andrew Shearer said at a conference hosted by the“We see a leader who’s really battening down and hardening his country for this struggle to overtake the United States as the world’s leading power,” he added, referring to Mr. Xi. “The base camp … is to establish primacy in the Indo-Pacific region.
“We need a growing, open economy so we can fund the increases in defense spending that the government’s committed to, but this can’t be a zero-sum trade-off between economics and security,” he said.
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