Australia should encourage the US and China to set up a Cold War-style "red telephone" hotline to help prevent conflict from accidentally breaking out, according to a new report from an army officer-turned-analyst.Writing in a research paper on the risk of war in the Indo-Pacific released today by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, William Leben recommended the Australian government should help set up "crisis-management mechanisms" between the two superpowers.One of the options he discussed was a hotline between the political or military leaders of the nations, similar to the so-called "red telephone" that linked the US and Russia for much of the Cold War.
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