The government’s recent pivot -- maybe better described as a lurch -- to South-East Asia, while welcome, has some major problems.
Three weeks ago it made a flurry of announcements designed, it appears, to let taxpayers know it was paying attention to the rapidly mounting fallout from the self-inflicted trade war with China.
South-East Asia got the chocolates in a package tailored for the annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit.
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