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Xi is waging more than a trade war

There is no real trade dispute with China. Trade is just leverage in a much wider battle over sovereignty.

Ross BabbageDefence strategist

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Current tensions between Australia and the Chinese regime are often described as a trade war. It is much more than that. What we are actually seeing is a far-reaching sovereignty war.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using a vast arsenal to coerce Australian governments to cede key parts of our political independence. Trade pressure is just part of a larger offensive.

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Ross Babbage is chief executive officer of Strategic Forum and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington DC.

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