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Australia overhauls defence strategy to respond to China’s build-up

Government to strengthen northern bases and long-range strike capabilities for ‘missile age’ threats

Australia has unveiled the biggest strategic shift in its military posture since the second world war to adapt to China’s military build-up in the region and the “rise of the missile age”.

The Defence Strategic Review, Australia’s biggest military strategic overhaul in decades, warned that the emergence of “major power strategic competition” in the Indo-Pacific had altered the country’s strategic circumstances.

“No longer is our alliance partner, the United States, the unipolar leader of the Indo-Pacific. Intense China-United States competition is the defining feature of our region and our time,” the report said.

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