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Ep. 88: Biden/Xi; Dutton/Wong; COP26; Solomon Islands

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Do You Think the Morrison Government Is Exercising Restraint in Its Language on China?

i would certainly not describe the coalition government's overall public messaging on china as restraint. But i do think it's true, almost axiomatically true, that on a day to day basis, leaders do exercise a degree of restraint. Prime minister morrison, foreign minister paine, trade minister tn, and before him, simon birmingham, all exercise restraint. And probably do exercise more restraint than dutton, because the chinese do lob a lot of provocations our way; they don't take the bait nearly as much as they could if they wanted to. I there's gong to be some calculation, thejust don't quite see what it is. It was

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