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Bob Carr
Bob Carr
Bob Carr is director of the Australia-China Relations Institute at the University of Technology Sydney. He is a former long-serving premier of New South Wales and former Australian minister for foreign affairs.

Australia sticking its neck out for the US on the issue of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei will not stop the US from striking a trade deal with China that could result in Australian exports suffering.

Malcolm Turnbull’s reset of relations with China was inevitable, as the fears his government has been spreading – about Chinese money in Australia’s democracy and China’s growing influence in the region – had little substance.

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Government leaders’ strikingly less friendly attitude in the past six months, while they draw closer to the US, reflects Canberra’s difficult balancing act of keeping relations with both China and the US on an even keel

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