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What did you do in the Cold War, Xi?

Future revisionists will have a field day

14 August 2021

9:00 AM

14 August 2021

9:00 AM

Revisionist historians of the future will make a special note of Foreign Minister Marise Payne’s speech at the recent Australia China Business Council meeting. She expressed a forthright rejection of Beijing’s conditions for bringing about a thaw in Sino-Australian relations. Revisionists, from the 1960s onwards, blamed the United States and the West for initiating the Cold War, or what we might now Cold War I.

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