ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Hugh White is the author of The China Choice and How To Defend Australia, and the acclaimed Quarterly Essays Power Shift and Without America. He is emeritus professor of strategic studies at ANU and was the principal author of Australia’s Defence White Paper 2000.

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America is fading, and China will soon be the dominant power in our region. What does this mean for Australia’s future?
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

This important essay clarifies China’s brinkmanship in Asia and confronts the hard facts of what it means for Australia

In ... Without America: Australia in the New Asia, Hugh White has given us possibly his best piece of writing, and on a subject of the first importance.

Just when the foreign-policy orthodoxy seemed to be catching up with him, White [has] upend[ed] it again.

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