MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content at 9:00 am on April 22, 2021 | 32 comments It’s the one area of national interest policy in which having a personality-disordered PM has paid handsome dividends. Morrison’s constant diplomatic blundering and habit of gaslighting every human he comes across has delivered Australia an accelerated Chinese decoupling. And thank dog for it! A few more years of sailing down the path of Gladys Liu’s silent invasion and we’d have been lost as Beijing ‘bribed and bullied’ electorates captured the democracy. Today we are slammed into reverse gear: The Morrison government has torn up VIC’s Belt and Road agreement on the basis that it compromised foreign policy.