Each AUSMIN meeting, when the foreign and defence ministers from Australia and their American counterparts get together, generally each year, is marked by a communiqué.
These statements signal the matters of mutual agreement and shared concern, and typically mark progress and intent on initiatives of the two nations. Mostly they are fulsome, covering an exhaustive range of current issues. The 2022 communiqué is one such, albeit reorienting towards the Pacific and for the first time referencing indigenous peoples.
That’s what’s new. What’s often interesting are the absences and subtractions from earlier communiqués.
The shifting winds of AUSMIN | The Strategist (aspistrategist.org.au)
