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Xi Jinping, a gold bar, Anthony Albanese, Mary Poppins and Zohran Mamdani (Image: Private Media)

Schrödinger’s diplomat? As anyone with a prolific output can relate, if you’re in the habit of regularly churning out content, you always risk writing something that more or less directly contradicts something you’ve written before.

So we won’t do much more than note for the record that in July, the Australian Financial Review editorialised that Anthony Albanese was risking being too deferential to Xi Jinping.

But on Tuesday, the AFR fretted that Albanese was risking… upsetting Xi Jinping — or, as the paper’s op-ed writer put it, “cosying up to America in an openly anti-China minerals ar

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