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How to deal with an aggressive China: lessons from Australia

15 July 2020

9:26 PM

15 July 2020

9:26 PM

What can the UK learn from Australia and its occasionally rocky relationship with China? The welcome decision to ban Huawei from Britain’s 5G network has prompted concerns that China will find a way to hit back. This is hardly surprising, as the Chinese ambassador to London, Liu Xiaoming, has warned Britain that ‘if you want to make China a hostile country, you will have to bear the consequences’.

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Alexander Downer is chairman of Policy Exchange and former Australian high commissioner to the United Kingdom


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