Australia Needs a Geopolitical Plan B as Global Ties Shift

A number of developments outside Australia last week could be signs of the geopolitical tectonic plates slowly shifting. Not that you’ll read about them in Australia’s mainstream media — these developments would be considered either too peripheral to Australia’s national interest, or too incompatible with the existing narrative framework of reporting the world. First, Canada. Last Thursday, Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney visited China and met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang. He wanted to leverage Canada’s national strengths to cooperate with China on trade, energy, agriculture, seafood and other areas.