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.

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