The Life and Times of a Thoroughly liberal Prime Minister - Malcolm Turnbull
The Joe Walker Podcast
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The Rise of the China Hawks
In 2011, you gave a speech to the London School of Economics. You accepted Kissinger's then contrast between missionary US exceptionalism and China's disinterest in claiming its institutions are relevant outside of China. But by the time you'd become Prime Minister, I feel like, you know, much to your credit,. This was an example of your intellectual agility. You'd become rather more hawkish on China. And maybe that was because the facts changed. For example, Xi became more aggressive in his foreign policy. We had the Belt and Road Initiative emerge in 2013 - as well as the artificial islands in the South China Sea. What it seeks from others is compliance. That doesn't really care what
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