Australia's China challenge in the post-coronavirus world
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Australia's China challenge in the post-coronavirus world
The coronavirus was a health story. It is now an economic story. Before we know it, it will become a geo-strategic story and Australia has a blind spot.

Australia's China challenge in the post-coronavirus world

There are two major challenges Australia must face as it navigates a post-coronavirus world that will be dominated by the US retreat from its sphere of influence and China’s increasingly muscular diplomacy.
The first is our lack of direct access to China. There are few, if any, MPs in Parliament who have a relationship with their Chinese counterpart.
Australian MPs can count substantial networks in Washington, London, and Jakarta, but none with the National People’s Congress of our largest trading partner. Half-a-dozen offices in Parliament have a sticker of wolf claw marks on their front window. They belong to the Parliamentary Friends of Democracy - an informal group made up of Liberal senators James Paterson and Amanda Stoker, Labor’s Kimberley Kitching, and the chair and deputy chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, Andrew Hastie and Anthony Byrne.
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