The budget, the oil shock, the Thucydides trap, and the case for Australian optimism

Every fortnight, Sam Roggeveen and Hugh White discuss major developments in international affairs affecting Australia and the region, from an Australian perspective.
“I don't mind that framing, but my retort would be that the easiest and probably the cheapest and lowest risk way to ensure that China never becomes globally dominant is to ensure that China's own region remains perpetually contested.
After all, what was the sort of geostrategic basis of American dominance? It's that it had a totally untroubled and uncontested Western hemisphere.”