China plays reverse 'poke the bear'
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
In the moment, Scott Morrison’s angry denunciation of the offensive Chinese tweet about alleged Australian war crimes seemed a reasonable response.
In retrospect, it was probably ill-judged. This is so even though the response had bipartisan support.
The Chinese immediately knew they’d touched a raw nerve, and kept pressing it, through...
