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CCP Foreign Minister’s Visit a Show About Nothing

Accommodating Wang Yi’s preferences to have no engagement with the open press in Australia has enabled this surreal situation to occur.
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CCP Foreign Minister’s Visit a Show About Nothing
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Foreign Minister Wang Yi (C) holds talks with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong at a bilateral meeting in Canberra, Australia, on March 20, 2024. David Gray/AFP via Getty Images
Michael Shoebridge
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The most striking thing about Beijing Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit to Australia is how empty the official events around it have been.

Michael Shoebridge
Michael Shoebridge
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Michael Shoebridge is a director at Strategic Analysis Australia. From 2018 to 2022, he was the defence and national security director of the Canberra-based Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). He was also a defence policy advisor to the Department of the Prime Minister, two federal ministers, and the Australian Embassy in Washington D.C.
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