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China's leaders are strong and emboldened. It's wrong to see them as weak and insecure

  • Written by Saul Eslake, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania
China's leaders are strong and emboldened. It's wrong to see them as weak and insecureMark Schiefelbein/AP

There’s an emerging view that China’s belligerent approach and “torching” of diplomatic relationships with the wider world is a sign of “insecurity and weakness”; that its economic growth is “unsustainable”; and that “everyone in the top ranks of the Chinese Communist...

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