AUKUS reshapes the strategic landscape of the Indo-Pacific
A major submarine deal underscores how the new theatre for great-power competition is maritime
IN THE EARLY 19th century, Chinese and Indian labourers in what is now Western Australia noted that the sweet-smelling logs being burned in the colony’s fires were sandalwood—a valuable commodity in their native lands. By the 1870s Australian sandalwood was one of the colony’s major exports, shipped from Perth to Bombay, Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai, where it was particularly prized.
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