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Australia has a China problem and we can’t leave it to faceless spooks
Australia has a China problem.
It’s not in Beijing.
It’s not on the streets of Hong Kong.
It’s in Canberra.
China policy is in flux, under stress and confused.
- Tony Walker
- The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia’s meek response to the pro-democracy mass demonstrations in Hong Kong contrasts with attitudes in its own security establishment that are redolent of a Cold War era.
One week Prime Minister Scott Morrison is venturing into the South Pacific to “confront’’ China, according to a ridiculous headline in a national newspaper, the next his government is missing in action on an …
Along with “stepping…