27 April 2014
Tony Wall
A former Australian prime minister has warned Australia risks being pulled into a war with China because it has surrendered its strategic independence to Washington, but a security expert says New Zealand’s position is even more precarious.
In what is being labelled the most serious questioning of Australia’s foreign policy by a former prime minister since World War II, former Liberal leader Malcolm Fraser said he had become “very uneasy” at the level of Australia’s compliance with US strategic interests.
“Our armed forces are so closely intertwined with theirs and we really have lost the capacity to make our own strategic decisions,” Fraser said yesterday.
