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Outlook, Volume IV, Issue 8, September 2014.
79. AUSMIN 2015 Joint Statement, 13 October 2015.
80. Ibid.
81. Australian 2016 Defence White Paper, paragraph 2.17.
82. Australian 2016 Defence White Paper, paragraph 5.17. Alan Dupont,
‘Full spectrum defence: Re-thinking the fundamentals of Australian
defence strategy’, Lowy Institute Analysis, Sydney, March 2015, p. 10.
83. Julie Bishop, ‘US-Australia: The Alliance in an Emerging Asia’, Speech to
the Alliance 21/CSIS Conference, Washington DC, 22 January 2014.
84. East-West Center (EWC), United States Studies Centre at
University of Sydney (USSC), and Perth USAsia Centre at University
of Western Australia (USAC), ‘Australia matters for America/
American matters for Australia’, Washington DC, 2015.
85. Ibid.
86. John Goyer, ‘US-Australia Trade Pact Impresses after First
Decade’, US Chamber of Commerce, 24 March 2015.
87. Michael White, ‘US-Australia Free Trade Agreement
turns 10’, Global Trade Daily, 27 March 2015.
88. EWC, USSC, and USAC, ‘Australia matters for
America/American matters for Australia’.
89. Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Defence White
Paper 2016, Canberra, 2016, Chapter 9, Sections 5.18-5.30.
90. Cameron Stewart, ‘US eyes strategic benefits from Japan
submarines deal’, The Australian, 22 January 2016.
91. Rory Medcalf, ‘We’re not the only friends the United States has
in the Asian region’, The Age, 16 June 2015; Alex Oliver, ‘Will
92. Ibid.
Australians support a deeper, bolder US alliance?’ The Interpreter,
Lowy Institute for International Policy, 16 July 2015.
93. Elsina Wainwright, Interviews with Washington DC analysts,
New York/Washington DC, October and November 2015.
94. Michael Green, Kathleen Hicks, Mark Cancian, Zack Cooper, John
Schnaus, et al, Asia-Pacific Rebalance 2025: Capabilities, Presence, and
Partnerships, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington
DC, January 2016, p. 67. Michael Green and Andrew Shearer, ‘Mr
Turnbull Goes to Washington’, The National Interest, 17 January 2016.
95. Mark Thomson, ‘We don’t have to choose between the US and
China’, The Strategist, ASPI, 2 May 2015; Darren Lim, ‘Hillary
Clinton’s trade warning: Can China coerce Australia?’, The
Interpreter, Lowy Institute for International Policy, 1 July 2014.
96. Hugh White, ‘ANZUS in the Asian Century’, The Strategist,
ASPI, 15 July 2015; and Hugh White, The China Choice: Why
America Should Share Power, Black Inc., Collingwood, 2012.
97. There seems to be some coalescence around this approach. Peter
Varghese, ‘An Australian Worldview: A Practitioner’s Perspective’, Speech
to the Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney, 20 August 2015;
Ashton Carter, ‘The United States and challenges to Asia-Pacific security’,
2015 Shangri-La Dialogue, p. 4; Michael J. Green, Peter J. Dean, Brendan
Taylor and Zack Cooper, ‘The ANZUS Alliance in an Ascending Asia’,
ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Centre of Gravity Series
Report, July 2015, p. 12; and G. John Ikenberry, ‘The Rise of China and
the Future of the West: Can the Liberal System Survive?’, Foreign Affairs,
1 January 2008, p. 1. There is also some evidence that China would be
prepared to play an enlarged role within the existing order. Xi Jinping,
Address at the General Debate, 70th Session of the United Nations
General Assembly, New York, 28 September 2015; and Kevin Rudd, ‘US-
China 21: The Future of US-China Relations under Xi Jinping: Summary
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