Rudd pushes back on US claim that Australia needs to ‘step up’ on defence
Australia’s current defense expenditures are about 2 percent of GDP. However, Rudd said that he spoke at a personal capacity at the Aspen Conference and said that Australia’s defense expenditures had a “very narrow definition ve and if the methodology reflects the US, the figure is probably 2.5 percent or higher.
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“Australia is located far north of the 2 percent line for a very long period of no longer other governments around the world, and added that Australia is sure that Pentagon’s concerns about Aukus can work on.
Nicholas Burns, who served as the US Ambassador to the US under the direction of Joe Biden, said that the same panel is trying to reduce Beijing to the greatness of Beijing, not only in the Indo-Pacific but also in the world, and this requires a stronger response.
China’s military activities in the South China Sea, Taiwan Strait and Yellow Sea, the status of almost all South American countries as the main trade partner and the economic influence of Africa, Central Asia and Southeast Asia.
Burns, “We should raise our game. Not only regional, but a global competition with China,” he said. “I think we didn’t take this global threat seriously and the Chinese strengthen themselves.”
Sydney -based United States Research Center General Manager Mike Green, Australia, Japan and South Korea have to increase defense expenditures, but the Trump administration aggression and tariff threats underlined the case, he said.
“No government will not enter into these great agreements without knowing whether there will be 25 percent, 45 percent tariffs,” he said. “The way we do this is important. We slow down the speed of cooperation much faster.”
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