Dismal Diplomacy, Disposable Sovereignty: Our Problem with China & America

As ‘America’s shoeshine boy in the South Pacific,’ Australia is accustomed to being told what to do. In the space of a mere five years, the subjugation of Australia’s national interest to that of the United States in provoking China under president Trump led us very quickly into a hostile relationship with the rising power of the People’s Republic of China, and trashed forty years of positive relationship building. Claiming to stand up against the newly aggressive nation under President Xi ...