Australians are frequently reminded that we are facing ‘the most complex and challenging strategic environment since the second world war’. Yet given recent exercises by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), Australia does not seem anywhere near prepared. It was left to a Virgin Airlines pilot to report live firing since apparently Australia lacks the capability to monitor potentially hostile warships in our backyard.
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Dimitri Burshtein is a principal at Eminence Advisory. Peter Swan AO is Emeritus Professor at the UNSW-Sydney Business School.
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