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Trust Paul Keating to interrupt ASEAN’s polite summit rhetoric
Labor is confident it can sell greater engagement and business investment with South-East Asia, no matter what the former prime minister thinks of its approach to China.
Jennifer HewettColumnistTrust Paul Keating to brusquely interrupt the polite ASEAN summit rhetoric about mutual respect, strategic partnerships and greater cooperation between Australia and the countries of South-East Asia.
But even without Keating’s embarrassingly timed blast at his former Labor colleagues, the gap between Australia and the ASEAN bloc in their views on China has been increasingly obvious.
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