New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian made headlines around the world this week when she put soldiers on the streets of Sydney, but no one revelled in the draconian crackdown more than Beijing.
The Global Times gloated that Foreign Minister Marise Payne had said in June 2020 that ‘some countries’ were ‘using the pandemic to undermine liberal democracy to promote their own more authoritarian models’.
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