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Why Australia won’t ban TikTok before the US does

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The Australian Government's Prohibition of TikTok

The Australian government finds itself in the unusual space where one of, if not its largest threat, its geopolitical threat is also its largest trading partner. It wants to greatly improve relations with China and undo some of the diplomatic damage done by its predecessors. And at the same time is conspicuously tying its security future to the United States through the Orca deal. So there's these difficulties or contradictions that are kind of hard to reconcile.

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