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This tension between the US and Australia is not entirely a relic of the past. Last year, Professor John Mearsheimer's Neville Canard address, which was well-received in Australia, argued that the US focus on Ukraine and the Middle East was distracting it from the greater security threat posed by China. Mearsheimer advocated for a realist foreign policy approach that prioritized the containment of China over the security of democracies in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.