A persistent theme in Australia’s Morrison government has been to assume that electors are mugs and unaware of its schemes. And just to keep that theme going, the specific tearing up of agreements made between China and the state of Victoria was supposedly not meant as a slight against Beijing, writes Binoy Kampmark.
The nullification of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) agreements by Australian foreign affairs minister Marise Payne were deemed necessary actions: the agreements were contrary to the national interest, a term so rubbery it often lacks shape.
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