Yesterday’s ugly, viciously confrontational Chinese tweet insulting Australia has been instructive to onlookers.
Flat White asked a seasoned Asian diplomat for his take on the Chinese Communist Party’s current ramping up of trade war tensions. The reply was blunt:
China never acts simply out if pique. This was a carefully stage-managed escalation taking opportunistic advantage of a domestic situation that got out of hand.
The CCP is not out just to humiliate Australia.
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