Rebecca Saylor
August 2019
Australia’s Indian Ocean Region strategic interests are becoming increasingly threatened by Indo-Sino competition, resulting in rising regional military activity and instability that is exacerbated by increasing US isolationism. Australia should safeguard its interests by operationalising its regional assets into defence capabilities on the strategically located Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island territories to enhance the US’s relatively dwindling power in the Indian Ocean Region.
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