Australia’s top priorities in a defense review were long-range precision strike weapons to counter the growing threat from China in the region, making it the country's biggest defense shakeup since World War Two
The review said the United States was no longer the "unipolar leader of the Indo Pacific", that intense competition between the U.S. and China was defining the region, and that the major power competition had "potential for conflict".
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the review "the most significant work that's been done since the Second World War", and said his government would act on its recommendations. China is undertaking the largest military buildup of any country since the end of World War Two, which was occurring "without transparency or reassurance to the Indo-Pacific region of China's strategic intent", the review said.A public version of the classified report released on Monday said Australia must "avoid the highest level of strategic risk we now face as a nation: the prospect of major conflict in the region".
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