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No wonder China is confused by us

China has changed since 2012. But the Australian government's messaging seems to have changed even more.

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in June that on China his government had “done nothing to injure that partnership – nothing at all”.

This week, he attributed worsening tensions to “some misunderstandings”. To be precise, China’s misunderstandings.

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James Laurenceson is Director of the Australia–China Relations Institute (ACRI) at the University of Technology Sydney.
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