The Australian Financial Review reports that former prime minister Paul Keating has accused the Morrison government of “wantonly leading Australia into a strategic dead end” by needlessly provoking China and abandoning foreign policy independence to become a “fawning acolyte” of the US. The article refers to comments made by former prime minister John Howard at a USSC event on Wednesday.
Defence3 September 2021
Morrison leading Australia into a dead end on China: Keating
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