Malcolm Fraser's Asia Delusion

Malcolm Fraser’s book Dangerous Allies (Fraser with Roberts 2014) has \nrightly been taken to task, even by broadly sympathetic readers, for the way it \ncaricatures US foreign policy (White 2014). It leaves the absurd impression that \nalmost everything Washington does in the world today is a wilfully dangerous \nextension of the neoconservative crusade of a decade ago. The book has at \nleast one other equally unsettling flaw: the way it misreads or misrepresents \ncontemporary Asia. The author privileges his own version of China’s strategic \npriorities and sensitivities far above the interests and perspectives of other \nAsian countries. This lack of balance, combined with a false depiction of the \nUSA, greatly weakens the credibility of the book’s core conclusions about \nrevisiting and perhaps ending the security alliance between the USA and \nAustralia

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  Graeme Dobell•Australian Journal Of International…•2015

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