Joe Biden’s Asia tsar: China’s harshness to Australia looks ‘unyielding’

Campbell said he believed Australians should be “settling in for the long haul” in terms of tensions with China, even as the Morrison government tries to repair the relationship.

“I see little yield, and if anything a rising sense of nationalism and a sense of aggrievement and a determination to continue to prosecute a very assertive case internationally across the board,” he said of China.

Campbell said the Biden administration believes China’s tariffs on Australian exports were an attempt to “cut Australia out of the herd” of US allies “and see if they can affect Australia to completely change how it sees itself and sees the world”.

Campbell said that a decade ago he would have named Australia as one of the countries most likely to shift away from the US in favour of a closer relationship with Beijing.

“I think that is completely gone now,” he said.

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