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foreign affairs reporter Stephen Dziedzic

Australia wants to ensure 'strategic equilibrium' in Asia, says Foreign Minister Penny Wong

Foreign Minister Penny Wong will make a speech at the National Press Club on Monday. (ABC News: Pedro Ribeiro)

The foreign minister will use a National Press Club speech today to declare that the strategic contest in Asia right now is much more than just a battle for supremacy between the US and China, and will determine "nothing less" than how the future world works.

Senator Penny Wong will make the address as tensions continue to ratchet up in the region in the wake of China's latest military exercises near Taiwan, and North Korea's most recent missile tests.

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