AUSTRALIA REFUSES TO YEILD TO CHINA’S PRESSURE
One of the narratives that emerged from the recent G-20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, was that Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had demonstrated the success of Australia's unsubmissive approach to China by securing a face-to-face meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. By refusing to yield to China's belligerence and economic coercion, Canberra has earned Beijing's respect or at the very least China's acknowledgement that its tactics will not work. Rather than a single meeting, sustained high-level engagement between Beijing and Canberra will determine whether this is true.
Instead of making predictions about how the relationship will develop in the future, what is currently of interest is how Australia's approach to China has been described over the last half-decade, ...