Spears in place of Bridges: Australia, China and Fashioned Ignorance

There is an overwhelming boisterous ignorance that characterises Australia’s foreign policy approach to China.  When Beijing was boxed and derided as emerging, weak and well-behaved, everyone supposedly got on.  Washington remained the region’s patriarch and Australia its policing deputy.  Everyone could get on plundering resources and making some ruddy cash along the way.  Then, assumptions started being challenged: the cheeky[Read More...]

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