The B-21 Stealth Bomber: Does Australia need a weapon to strike mainland China?

Every fortnight, Sam Roggeveen and Hugh White discuss major developments in international affairs affecting Australia and the region, from an Australian perspective.“A word shall mean whatever I want them to mean, as Humpty Dumpty said. “But I do think it's helpful for clarity to reserve the word alliance for a relationship which carries clear mutual commitments to military support in the event of conflict. And for quite a long time now, going back to a late 90s even, you've seen the evolution of the Japan-Australia relationship in the direction in which would that would appear to be a logical end point.“And obviously, the rise of China and growing doubts about the United States are what's behind that.”