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How Australians are "viewed" by Asia is irrelevant to our relations with them. Our defence ties, investments, trade, are all carried out with national interests in mind, not what some observers agonise over. People like
Damien Green, above, obsess over how Australia is viewed, but no one else cares.
Note the article makes no mention of the recent decision to continue the Darwin port contract, run by a China PLA affiliate, and which the US — and much of Australian opinion — had wanted cancelled. How does that fit into the "Proxy Americans" narrative?