Vassal state

Liberal Senator James Paterson urged British MPs to follow Australia in pushing back when foreign powers use non-military methods to undermine another ...

“None of us have a moment to waste.” Get a note direct from our foreign correspondents on what’s making headlines around the world. Strategic ambiguity was useful once, but it is dangerous now.” “My hope is that China will learn the right lessons from Ukraine in relation to its ambitions in the Indo-Pacific [and] that China has noticed the world’s incredible resolve and its extraordinary determination to enact a very high cost against Russia for what it has done,” he said. “The fear I have for all of us is that we will not have a warning as stark as 2014 and we certainly do not have eight years to get ready,” he said. He urged British MPs to follow Australia’s example in combatting foreign interference and pushing back in the so-called “grey zone” areas where foreign powers use a range of non-military methods to try to undermine another country.