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Nov 08, 2021
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Australia strikes back at France

  • In last week’s cables, I analyzed how Biden’s description of the AUKUS deal as ‘‘clumsy’’ wasn’t going to fly with our British and Australian allies.

  • It was a significant diplomatic faux pas to undermine our allies (and to speak on their behalf), and to cede the rhetorical and narrative high ground to the French.

  • I furth…

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