Will Australia feel the squeeze even more from a stronger China in 2021?

Great power competition in the Asia-Pacific region has been building for years, but Covid-19 has turbocharged the shifts taking place and China finished 2020 in a significantly stronger position compared with the US than when the year started.Meanwhile, Canberra’s relations with Beijing continue to deteriorate and there’s little reason to be optimistic that a sudden, positive turnaround will be seen in 2021.As competition, rather than cooperation, has become the dominant frame through which…

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