Labor’s revived “Asian Century” doctrine seeks to re-engage China while standing alongside regional allies battered by Beijing’s duress, writes Phillip Coorey.
on Thursday with Chinese Premier Li Qiang, Albanese confirmed he would be the first Australian prime minister to visit China since Turnbull attended the G20 in 2016.Yet, that night, Albanese went out of his way to fly four-and-a-half hours east to visit Manila for less the 24 hours for what was the first bilateral visit to the Philippines in 20 years.
Why? Because along with Vietnam, Singapore and Indonesia, the Philippines is among the most important of ASEAN nations in the pushback against China.from Beijing in its own waters in the South China Sea, Marcos jnr is a vocal critic of Beijing and was an early and strident supporter of AUKUS.So much so that at APEC in Thailand last year, he made overtures about joining the tripartite security pact.
“You’ve got to do what you got to do,” said a government official of the mixed messages sent by trying to be China’s friend one second, and then sandbagging against it the next.
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