Xi’s China is ‘dogged by insecurity,’ says Australian diplomat

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9 mins ago Bloomberg China has profoundly changed how it deals with the outside world under President Xi Jinping, a top Australian diplomat says, describing the Asian nation as “dogged by insecurity.” “The clock has been wound back in terms of the priority accorded to ideology, quashing voices of civil society, and erecting new barriers to external connections and the free flow of information,” Frances Adamson, head of Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said on Wednesday in a speech in Canberra. China is undergoing “a steep loss of influence” in Australia and many other countries, said Adamson, a...