By Sam Roggeveen*
Paul Dibb’s critique of my Australian Foreign Affairs essay, ‘Target Australia: Is the alliance making us less safe?’, falls into three broad categories: the first is about China’s plans to strike Australia, the second about Australia’s plans to hit China, and the third about Australia’s broader willingness to deter military aggression. (Australian Strategic Policy Institute. The Strategist.) He identifies the last point as the ‘main problem’, so let’s begin there.
