Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong has called on every country to consider what it can do to stop a “catastrophic” war in the Indo-Pacific.
Speaking at King’s College’s Centre for Grand Strategy in London, Wong said the region mattered to everyone because it was where the “reshaping of our world” is being centred.
“We must exercise agency. We are not bystanders in this story,” she said on Jan. 31.
Wong noted that the largest military build-up in the world was currently happening on the doorstep of Australia.
North Korea conducted over 60 ballistic missile launches, while Beijing has militarised artificial islands in the South China Sea and signed a security agreement with the Solomon Islands….