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I certainly agree there. Highlighting reliance on China and other low wage countries is his only redeeming feature, as the current pandemic demonstrates. I haven't heard Biden's foreign relations policy if he has one so I can't comment on what his attitude towards China might be.

Seeing Australia's politicians continually cow towing to the PRC is pretty morale sapping. Hopefully they will see the light in that if you have unreliable customers who pay high prices one minute to suck you in, but then chop you off at the knees the next then that's not as good as a consistent but possibly less high paying market (the local Australian market perhaps).

Australia's management of the PRC relationship needs to be careful, given that were are not a global superpower in either trade or military, but in the long term it means gradually easing ourselves out of their grip towards other markets who trade commercially not politically, and it also means providing for our own needs first wherever possible.

I'm not sure we have the politicians to do this at the moment. People say Morrison is a pragmatist, I hope they are right.