@TillLindemann; you've raised an important point!
Penny Wong was able to impact China's 'soft diplomacy' throughout the Pacific without causing further OFFENSE and at a point where the situation was indeed fraught - in stark contrast to the bombastic megaphone approach of Morrison and Dutton.
It appears Wong has saved our bacon but without biting Beijing on the bum as it extends an olive branch in celebration of how Whitlam opened China to the World fifty years ago.
