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If the United States went to war with China should Australia join in? It’s a question, writes Hugh White, that would have seemed purely hypothetical until a few years ago, but not anymore.
As White explains in today’s Friday essay, neither Washington nor Beijing wants war, “but both seem willing to accept it rather than abandon their primary objectives”.
“If war comes, it will be sparked by a dispute between the United States and China over something like Taiwan or the South China Sea,” White says. As an ally, “Washington would expect Australia to fight alongside it”.
White argues that we should decide whether or not to go to war by looking mainly at what our predecessors did in previous crises. It is thus useful to look at two previous occasions when we faced comparably serious choices: 1914 and 1939.
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Suzy Freeman-Greene
Section Editor: Books + Ideas
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Hugh White, Australian National University
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