Australia's Albanese paid a high price for his trip to China

Canberra no longer seems willing to stand up for rules-based international order

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Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, speaks to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in California on Nov. 17. © Reuters

Lavina Lee is a senior lecturer in the department of security studies and criminology of Macquarie University in Sydney and a nonresident adjunct fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

Upon taking office as Australia's prime minister in May 2022, Anthony Albanese promised that his administration would work to "stabilize" relations with China, saying he would "cooperate with China where we can, disagree where we must and engage in our national interest."

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