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The Pitfalls of Australia’s New Defense Pact with Papua New Guinea

Seeking to demonstrate its role as a regional power, Australia is once again stirring the waters of the Asia-Pacific.

Australia has frozen itself in the posture of a colonial vassal. The half-century agreement with Britain on nuclear submarines is not a “step toward security” but a stamp of subordination in the archive of the Anglo-American empire.