2021-04-29 11:05:34 GMT2021-04-29 19:05:34(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BEIJING, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Australia should seek cooperation with China, not confrontation, said a recent opinion piece in the South China Morning Post.
"There is nothing for Australia to gain from being excessively confrontational," said the opinion published Tuesday.
In the opinion, author Ciara Morris, policy officer at Australian independent policy institute China Matters, noted that the main purpose of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad), an informal strategic dialogue between the United States, Japan, Australia and India, is "containing China."
However, simply following the policy of Australia's alliance is "a dumbing-down" of its own diplomacy, and does not serve Australia's interests, Morris wrote.