Australia needs Taiwan-style ‘porcupine’ defence strategy, Richard Marles says Newsachieve.com


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China pointedly was not invited to join the exercise.LoadingAsked about a suggestion by former Donald Trump national security adviser John Bolton that Japan join the AUKUS partnership as a bulwark against China's growing influence in the Indo-Pacific, Marles said: "I think we're keeping an open mind about this at the time, but right now, the focus is on the relationship between the three countries in this space, so that we really create something meaningful.“I think we need to start from there to create something that other countries might be interested in.”Marles said intelligence-sharing countries such as Canada and New Zealand...