Australia’s Minister for the Pacific Zed Seselja has warned that Russia’s incursions into Ukraine should serve as a reminder for Australia to remain vigilant in its own backyard in the Pacific, where China has unresolved territorial disputes. In an op-ed for News Corp’s The Australian published on March 14, Seselja noted that China had “conspicuously failed to condemn” Russia’s military operation in Ukraine and warned that it was “not the time for complacency when it comes to our own security.” “China has its own unresolved territorial disputes, a growing military power, and a deepening partnership with Russia,” he wrote. “It would be naive for us now to assume the war in Ukraine, while almost 15,000 [kilometres] away, does not have serious implications for our own security,” he wrote. The Australian government has sounded the alarm on a number of Beijing’s moves in the Indo-Pacific region. This includes China’s growing stockpile of nuclear weapons, its …