After years of letting Australia whore itself with no consequence, it appears Australia’s strategic Great Power friend has woken up. Via the AFR:
The Trump administration is closely analysing China’s alleged interference attempts in Australia’s democratic institutions as a case study to help calibrate Washington’s own push-back against perceived Beijing meddling in the United States.
The Turnbull government’s proposed foreign interference crackdown is viewed in Washington as being at the international forefront of responding to China’s rising international sway, as the US seeks to protect public institutions, the media, universities and think tanks from undue and non-transparent foreign influence.
