Survey finds 47% believe Aukus locks Australia in to supporting the US in an armed conflict, while concern about conflict with China has fallen
Donald Trump speaks in Las Vegas. A survey has found 37% think Australia should withdraw from the US alliance if the former president returns to office.Donald Trump speaks in Las Vegas. A survey has found 37% think Australia should withdraw from the US alliance if the former president returns to office.
Coalition voters are more likely than Labor voters to think the Aukus pact will make Asia safer . Across all Australian respondents, 43% say the submarines will make Asia safer, while a significant chunk either don’t know or aren’t sure whether or not that will be the case. In 2022, 58% of Australian respondents to the survey thought that proposition was either very or somewhat likely. But after the steady thaw in diplomatic relations between Canberra and Beijing over the past 12 months, andA majority of Australian respondents believe China will become the most economically and militarily influential country in Asia over the coming couple of decades . More than half Australian respondents believe that eventuality would be bad.
As well as the complication of congressional dysfunction, doubts about Australia’s willingness to join forces with the US in a war against China are alsoAlbanese’s looming visit to China will coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first visit to the country by Gough Whitlam in 1973. Asked on Tuesday whether or not he was walking a diplomatic tightrope between the strategic competitors – Washington and Beijing – the prime minister said Australians wanted him “to be direct about our interests”.
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