Aust China Relationship Status: It’s Complicated
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Australians need not be alarmed by China’s increasingly adversarial behaviour argues Professor John Blaxland from Australian National University in a chat with Hear and There presenter Nathan Reynolds, however we would be well advised to build better relationships with neighbours such as Indonesia – and stop poking the dragon, unless we’re prepared to live with the blowback.
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