Asimple graph explains Austra-lia's declining strategic posi-tion. Relative to the two coun-tries that its defense planners must consider most carefully, Australia will by 2017 have just a quarter of the eco-nomic clout it enjoyed 25 years before. In 1992, Australia's gross domes-tic product was about half the total of those of China and Indonesia (see graph). In 2017, it will be about one-eighth.
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