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Australia’s new National Defence Strategy focuses on making any attack against Australia’s interests prohibitively expensive and risky – Copyright AFP Simon Wohlfahrt<\/small><\/em><\/p>\nAustralia unveiled its first National Defence Strategy on Wednesday, signalling a new focus on deterring China\u2019s \u201ccoercive tactics\u201d in a region seen as lurching towards conflict.<\/p>\n
The 80-page document offers a gloomy assessment of Pacific security and sets out a massive increase in defence spending to retool Australia\u2019s military to cope.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe optimistic assumptions that guided defence planning after the end of the Cold War are long gone,\u201d said Defence Minister Richard Marles, presenting the new strategy.<\/p>\n
Warning that \u201cChina has employed coercive tactics in pursuit of its strategic objectives,\u201d the text describes an Australia vulnerable to foes strangling trade or preventing access to vital air and sea routes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are a maritime trading island nation,\u201d Marles said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe invasion of Australia is an unlikely prospect in any scenario, precisely because so much damage can be done to our country by an adversary without ever having to step foot on Australian soil,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
So instead of focusing on maintaining a military that can do a range of tasks almost anywhere in the world, Marles said there would be a laser focus on building a deterrent force that can protect Australia\u2019s interests in its immediate region.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the centre of the strategy are plans to develop a fleet of stealthy nuclear-powered submarines, to triple key missile capabilities and develop a large surface combatant fleet.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving the most capable Navy in our history will be at the heart of our projection and our strategy of denial,\u201d Marles said.<\/p>\n
The strategy boils down to making any attack against Australia\u2019s interests prohibitively expensive and risky.<\/p>\n
As a share of GDP, defence spending is set to increase from about two percent today to 2.4 percent within a decade.<\/p>\n
That will only fuel an arms race that is taking place across the Pacific, with China, South Korea and Japan all piling more money into defence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, military spending in Asia and Oceania has increased 45 percent since 2013.<\/p>\n
Given that backdrop, Australia predicts an increased risk of conflict in the Taiwan Strait, the South and East China Seas or on the border with India.<\/p>\n
Marles said that old assumptions about how much time Australia would have to prepare for war were gone.<\/p>\n
\u201cAustralia no longer has the luxury of a 10-year window of strategic warning time for conflict\u201d he said, upending long-held belief.<\/p>\n
Asked about Canberra\u2019s strategy at a regular briefing, Beijing urged Australia to \u201crefrain from making accusations against China at every turn\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cChina poses no threat to any country,\u201d foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hope that the Australian side can view China\u2019s development and strategic intentions in a correct light, abandon the Cold War mentality (and) do more to safeguard regional peace and stability,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Australia unveils new defence strategy, with eye on ‘coercive’ China
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