Paul Keating: Australia lacks a foreign policy to negotiate the rise of China

By Heath Aston, Political Correspondent
Updated August 31 2016 - 5:08pm, first published 1:04pm
Paul Keating at Labor's federal campaign launch in June. Photo: POOL
Paul Keating at Labor's federal campaign launch in June. Photo: POOL
Keating as prime minister at an APEC conference in Osaka in 1995. Photo: Mike Bowers
Keating as prime minister at an APEC conference in Osaka in 1995. Photo: Mike Bowers
Then Indonesian president Suharto with  Keating at the APEC meeting in Bogor, Indonesia in 1994. Photo: Mike Bowers
Then Indonesian president Suharto with Keating at the APEC meeting in Bogor, Indonesia in 1994. Photo: Mike Bowers

Paul Keating has accused Australia of lacking a foreign policy capable of negotiating the rise of China and the diminishing influence of the United States.

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