Former DFAT Australia-China Council scholar Andrew Phelan discusses calls from Donald Trump’s key defence adviser, Elbridge Colby, to clarify whether AUKUS subs will aid the US if China attacks Taiwan.
“China has something that Britain had at the height of its empire, and then America had after World War Two – it’s got scale. It’s got enormous scale,” Mr Phelan told Sky News Australia.
“In a Taiwan contingency, it would be fighting close to home, and America would be fighting far from home … so allies become critical because when you add the allies in, it brings an allied effort to the scale, that gives China pause.”
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US allies critical to combating the ‘enormous scale’ of China’s military – Sky News Australia
