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Critics of Australia's China policy don't have much to offer
Rebuild 'trust'. Appease Beijing. Spurn our allies. There is some pretty poor advice being given on how the Morrison government should deal with an assertive China.
Tom SwitzerContributorAmerican novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald once remarked: “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
By that standard, several prominent journalists, former diplomats and business figures are intellectual geniuses. On several China-policy matters, they make contradictory statements at the same time. Here are three of them.
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