‘Quiet and Subservient’: How Beijing Tested Australia—and Why One Analyst Says Canberra Faltered

‘Quiet and Subservient’: How Beijing Tested Australia—and Why One Analyst Says Canberra Faltered

The Australian government is exactly where Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping wants it to be, which is to be “quiet and subservient,” according to an ominous warning from defence expert Peter Jennings. Jennings was the Deputy Secretary for Strategy in the Defence Department (2009-12); Chief of Staff to the Minister for Defence (1996-98); and Senior Adviser for Strategic Policy to the Prime Minister (2002-03). He warned that with Bei…