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Richard McGregor

China’s new culture war on America

China is returning to the ‘Asian values’ debate of the 1980s and 1990s in its efforts to exclude the West from the Indo-Pacific region.

Beijing’s fire-breathing denunciations of Washington have become such a fixture of global politics that the latest jeremiad directed at America in Singapore last week produced mostly a shrug in some quarters.

Chinese Defence Minister General Li Shangfu salutes before delivering his speech on the last day of the Singapore conference. AP

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Richard McGregor is a senior fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney.

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