The U.S., the U.K. and Australia formed a trilateral security partnership as China grows its military might and influence in the Indo-Pacific region.
China looking into options for 'political union' with Taiwan will be 'dangerous,' former Australian PM saysChina has more aggressively asserted its claims over Taiwan, and there have been numerous breaches of Taiwan's air defense zone by Chinese warplanes this year.
"Frankly if we have the U.S., the U.K., Australia operating together in a more forceful type of alliance relationship ... that begins to paint a picture which says to China: 'You're not going to get away with an attack on Taiwan in the way that you did get away with militarizing the South China Sea'," said Jennings.
The South China Sea is a resource-rich waterway and a vital commercial shipping route where trillions of dollars of world trade reportedly passed through each year. Beijing claims nearly the entire sea, and has constructed military outposts on artificial islands that it built in those waters. Several Asian countries including Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia also claim parts of the South China Sea as their territories.as legally baseless — a ruling Beijing ignored.
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