Would Australia follow the US into a war with China? It depends, according to one expert.
Unlike other commentators, James Laurenceson, Director of the Australia-China Relations Institute at UTS, found Mr Macron’s comments “somewhat unremarkable”.
Australia adheres to what is known as the One China policy, which means it does not recognise the self-governed island of Taiwan as an independent country. “I think we need to be really clear on this. Even the US intelligence community says that there's absolutely no evidence that Beijing is currently in the process of mobilising its forces to invade,” he said.
“So for example, just to be blunt, if we had a US president unilaterally declaring that they recognised Taiwan, that then sparked a military conflict, I think there are real doubts about whether Canberra would in fact get involved because they would just see it as an easily avoidable crisis,” he said.
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