Despite the rise of China, the US remains the foremost guarantor of stability in the Pacific. ++ A debate is emerging in Australia about the wisdom of increasing the bond with Washington, but the idea of having to choose between China and the US is a false equivalency. ++ Australia has been able to increase ties with Beijing while standing by its traditional US allies, and other countries in the
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If China continues its present course, a security rivalry with the United States is inevitable. ++ China is currently traveling the same path the United States did on its march to world power: building its economy, expanding its naval capabilities, and excluding other great powers from its immediate neighborhood. ++ An open war between the United States and China is by no means inevitable, but
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