The ‘ridiculous, silly’ rhetoric coming out of Beijing

Nick Cater of the Menzies Research Center said the rhetoric coming out of Beijing at the moment is simply “ridiculously ridiculous.”

“A few words of the foreign minister – pretty modest words, very well chosen I thought – could provoke war when China had just conducted this live-missile test dangerously close. What does it mean to have the potential to push the region to the brink, Taiwan and Japan,” he told Sky News host Chris Smith.

“The course China is taking is a united front against this belligerent, aggressive and tyrannical regime that we in the West and Asia can no longer be trusted to be impartial dealers in anything. It re-emphasizes the fact that we need