Questions over Australia's response to China's 'coercive' tactics
US Studies Centre Foreign Policy and Defence Director Professor Peter Dean discusses staring down the “coercive” tactics of China.
This follows reports of a Chinese aircraft releasing flares over an Australian helicopter, causing it to take evasive action.
“This should not dissuade the Australian military or any other military of our friends and partners in this region from conducting these types of operations,” Mr Dean told Sky News Australia.
Questions over Australia’s response to China’s ‘coercive’ tactics
“An appropriate signal would be to double down on these types of operations.
“What they want is for us to concede a sort of unrecognised informal autonomy over these seas and regions.”