{"id":840520,"date":"2026-08-02T21:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T21:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840520\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T21:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T21:04:09","slug":"monday-briefing-australia-in-the-indo-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840520\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday briefing: Australia in the Indo-Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thirty years ago, Australia\u2019s strategic outlook was characterised by a comfortable bifurcation: economic growth was tied to Asia, while sovereign security rested on the traditional alliance with the US. The period from the mid-1990s through the 2000s marked an era of rapid regional integration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rise of China as an industrial powerhouse fuelled an unprecedented Australian resources boom. Iron ore, coal, liquefied natural gas, and a growing international education sector drove domestic prosperity, culminating in the signing of the landmark China-Australia Free Trade Agreement in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thirty years ago, Australia\u2019s strategic outlook was characterised by a comfortable bifurcation: economic growth was tied to Asia,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[132073,1896,64,63,413081,413082,413083,44],"class_list":["post-840520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-apec","tag-asean","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-foreign-policy","tag-china-australia-free-trade-agreement","tag-interfet","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}