Dave Sharma is a member of Australia's House of Representatives. He chairs the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties.
As the Chinese Communist Party spent early July marking the centenary of its establishment with fanfare in Beijing and a rather chilling speech from China's President Xi Jinping, the main focus in China's strategic rival, the United States, was on something more prosaic.
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