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Australia Needs to Get Smart About China

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Australia Needs to Get Smart About China
A Chinese warship docks in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Oct. 4, 2013. SAEED KHAN/AFP via Getty Images
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It’s 1985, and somewhere in the calm waters of South-East Asia, an Australian submarine slips beneath the surface on a moonless night. Its presence and disappearance go unnoticed as it was business as usual for the world on both sides of the iron curtain.

Dave Gilbert
Dave Gilbert
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Dave Gilbert is an Australian Values Party Senate candidate for NSW. He is a Navy veteran who served on Australian submarines during the Cold War as an intelligence analyst. He is also a lawyer and holds a Ph.D. in electronic surveillance and Australia’s national security language capability.
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