Amid our own modest post-election chaos, China is advancing its effort to secure hegemony across the Indo-Pacific region. We ignore this activity at great peril to our allies, economy, security, and values.

One of America’s closest allies, Australia, is again in the Communist Party’s sights. As the Sydney Morning Herald notes, “Australian businesses across the seafood, wine, barley, sugar, copper, coal and timber industries are bracing for a sudden halt to their exports to China on Friday.” One Australian trade official referred to this as a potential “D-Day” scale attack on the nation’s $120 billion export market to China.