24 September 2021

China has only itself to blame for AUKUS

Dr Charles Edel
Australia Chair and Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies

USSC non-resident senior fellow Charles Edel writes in Foreign Policy that the trilateral partnership was an inevitable result of Beijing’s military growth.

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Dr Charles Edel
Australia Chair and Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Dr Charles Edel is the inaugural Australia Chair and a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He was previously a Senior Fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. Prior to this, he was Associate Professor of Strategy and Policy at the US Naval War College, and served on the US Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff from 2015-2017. In that role, he advised Secretary of State John Kerry on political and security issues in the Asia-Pacific region.

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