We will never know what the government had planned for the cancelled meeting with Joe Biden. But it reeked of cultural cringe, and successive governments continuing to diminish the nation’s capital, writes Phillip Coorey.
The latest example was the plan, albeit abandoned, to hold the leaders’ meeting of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue at the Sydney Opera House next week.
Compared with other annual global jamborees such as the G20, APEC or ASEAN summits, the Quad is a small, business-like affair involving just four leaders that is over and done with in a day. we’ll never know whether the leaders were to be given koalas to cuddle, or if “G’day″ was to be projected on the Opera House roof.It reeked of cultural cringe, and continued the tradition of successive governments diminishing the nation’s capital as an embarrassing inconvenience.
It was not a great look for Australia’s new US ambassador, Kevin Rudd, and has taken the gloss off what Albanese had planned to be a triumphant moment to coincide with his first anniversary in power – spectacular images of him hosting powerful leaders at the Opera House. “China loves any event or controversy which highlights US domestic political dysfunction, especially when it spills over into the execution of foreign policy, as it has here,” said senior fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute Richard McGregor.“While US regional foreign policy won’t change as a result of this debacle, its ability to achieve those aims will suffer, along with its reputation for reliability.
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