Anthony Albanese avoids radical departures from a China narrative that aligns with the US, but Jacinda Ardern has a collectivist pitch
was about expressing common trans-Tasman positions using different locutions. But there was one interesting point of substantive divergence.
Ukraine was something simpler: an act of territorial aggression by Russia. She said there was no inevitability that China would follow Russia down the path of unprovoked aggression in this region. What was required at the moment was diplomacy and de-escalation and that became harder to achieve if our shared region became “increasingly divided and polarised”.
Now, we’ve reached the nub of the thing. This week, Australia and New Zealand offered separate parables about Ukraine, from different starting points, to cultivate a sense of collectivism in the region. Ardern’s alternative collectivist pitch was it’s OK to have a different view about the state of the world.
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