The Albanese government has displayed a deft diplomacy that the previous government sorely lacked.
In all of her speeches in the Pacific and South-East Asia, Wong has talked about shared “interests” much more than shared “values” such as liberal democracy. This is because the Morrison government’s constant talk of values went down like a lead balloon in South-East Asia. Most of these countries share our fear of a growing and more assertive China but don’t necessarily share our love for liberal democracy.
Wong is meeting audiences where they are at, and trying to build alignment from there. This shouldn’t be a surprise; Wong has alwaysWhen she is talking to an American audience, as she did earlier this month in a speech in Washington, there is much more talk of shared democratic values. But in her speech in Singapore in July, shared interests won the day.
This is similar to a new approach outlined by Britain’s foreign secretary James Cleverly last week, which emphasised building new partnerships with
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