The prime minister held his nerve in Washington on his state visit this week amid the usual hot talk of “warnings” about China.
No one can say the prime minister neglected his homework on that long flight across the Pacific. He knew which phrases from Democrat heroes to drop into his speeches in Washington.
Albanese wasn’t the only one drawing from deep rhetorical wellsprings. When President Biden was asked by an Australian journalist about the prime minister’s upcoming trip to Beijing, and whether Australia could trust China, Biden responded with the formula that former, Republican president Ronald Reagan used when negotiating arms control agreements with Moscow at the height of the Cold War.Biden said.
The other is that the balance Albanese appears to have struck in Washington is no sign of how others in the region – with the possible exception of Singapore – might behave when it comes to the era of US-China “extreme competition”. It is not a model for how to deal with China, though others may well draw on it in time.
Moreover, the Labor party, like its predecessor, ties its tongue and refuses to go into the parliament and explain both the strategic rationale of the agreement and how it will unfold.
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