‘Sledgehammer to crack a nut’: Canberra’s China crackdown to chill foreign collaboration with states
Special FeatureFOCUS: CHINA, AUSTRALIA AND THE PUBLIC SECTOR. A new wave of bureaucracy is about to descend on subnational governments as Canberra moves to leash interactions with foreign powers. Four years ago, Canberra’s relationship with Beijing was on much less complicated footing than it is now. Outbound trade with the people’s…