China’s ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian is “clearly under instructions” to test how far the Australian government will “pretend we are dealing with a different China,” says Strategic Analysis Australia Founding Director Michael Shoebridge. “The ambassador knows he has been sent out with a message he just can’t sell from Beijing,” Mr Shoebridge told Sky News Australia. “He even changed the Chinese government’s story on the sonar incident – back at the time, Chinese state media said that, yes, it was a
