Keating warns Aukus locks Australia into unwinnable US-China war

For decades, Australia has navigated the tension between geographic proximity to Asia and strategic alliance with the United States, but the Aukus submarine agreement has brought that tension to a breaking point. Former Prime Minister Paul Keating warns that Australia is being drawn, without full consent or clear-eyed reckoning, into a war with China over Taiwan that America would lose — and then abandon. The candid remarks of a visiting US congressman, who described Australian participation in such a conflict as simply 'assumed,' have given Keating's warnings an uncomfortable concreteness, ra