Australia's new reality is a Xi-led Asian order
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China's foreign policy has become confident, assertive and muscular. This is the world Australia's foreign policy makers must now learn to live with.
China's foreign policy has become confident, assertive and muscular. This is the world Australia's foreign policy makers must now learn to live with.
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