OPINION: Notwithstanding Beijing’s renewed willingness to pick up the proverbial phone call from Canberra, the reality is that Australia’s approach to managing a more assertive China has changed.
will continue the welcome stabilisation of the bilateral relationship, largely on Australia’s terms, that has flowed from the election of the Albanese government in May.
Labor’s dialling down of the Coalition’s politicised, out-in-front rhetoric on China has opened the way for the resetting of diplomatic ties. But notwithstanding Beijing’s renewed willingness to pick up the proverbial phone call from Canberra, the reality is that Australia’s approach to managing a more assertive China has changed.David Rowe
There has also been no giving in to China’s economic coercion, nor any reversal of the Turnbull government’s legitimate efforts to protect the sovereignty of Australia’s political and telecommunications systems from foreign interference that led to the diplomatic deep freeze in the first place.
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