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Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce said the government needs to treat China with more caution after relations with its largest trading partner hit new lows.
“They have made the world look at them in a different light -- their actions in the South China Sea, their actions pertinent to the Uyghur people, their actions in northern India,” Joyce said in an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday. “They seem more confrontational.”