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Shiro Armstrong is Director of the Australia–Japan Research Centre and the Asian Bureau of Economic Research at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University, and is Editor of the East Asia Forum.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews will travel to China this week for a trade mission, his first since the state's Belt and Road agreements were torn up and against a backdrop of rising security tensions.
The high-level defence partnership between the US, UK and Australia puts pressure on China s surface forces as the stronger subsurface capability will allow the allies to operate its warships across Indo-Pacific, especially, in the contested regions.