ANALYSIS: His first overseas trip as PM was an early taste of the competing pressures he faces in framing Australian China policy. As Beijing extends another olive branch, Washington toughens up.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese leaves Tokyo having ticked all the necessary boxes on his first overseas visit.
And Albanese flew almost instantly into the very set of swirling winds that buffet Australian foreign and defence policy in this era, forces which will now be his, and those of his cabinet colleagues, to manage and help shape. Yet America’s regional priorities are disjointed. Washington is showing up in the region and planting a firmer military tread, but its economic footprint remains patchy.
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