Smith defends US-China approach

9 August 2012

The Australian Financial Review

Defence minister Stephen Smith has rebuffed suggestions that US power is waning and it should cede authority in the region to China or that the Gillard government has become too close to Washington. Centre CEO and Sydney University Business School dean Geoffrey Garrett says that rather than caught in the middle, Australia is currently in the sweet spot.

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