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‘Sledgehammer to crack a nut’: Canberra’s China crackdown to chill foreign collaboration with states
Four years ago Canberra’s relationship with Beijing was on much less complicated footing; outbound trade with the people’s republic was rebounding to a five-year high, the government-owned postie was talking up the market ad nausea, and public officials were attending all manner of ceremonial signings. It was at one of these memorandum ceremonies—routine in China’s […]