The Quad Summit with Lavina Lee, Tanvi Madan and Sheila Smith
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Australia and China - What's the Perception?
Australia has been taking some very forward leaning positions to counter or oppose chinese policies over the last four or five years. So we were one of the first countries to support the permanent court of arbitration ruling in two thousand 16 and call legally binding from the beginning a. We've introduced foreign interference legislation that the chinese government didn't like very much, and that other countries are now seeking to emulate. And i think this is what probably trigged everything, was that we we called for a investigation into the origins of the covert 19 pandemic. It's really the deterioration of our relationship with china has accelerated over the last year, and the astran government hasn't backed down on that
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