Why did a Chinese newspaper call Julie Bishop a 'complete fool'?

By John Garnaut
Updated July 27 2014 - 10:08am, first published July 15 2014 - 9:45pm
Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop in her office at Parliament House. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop in her office at Parliament House. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Canberra. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Canberra. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

The editorial page of Monday's Global Times - the Chinese Communist Party's rabidly nationalistic tabloid - would seem to support Hugh White's prediction that Australia will pay a price for obstructing, rather than facilitating, the expansion of Chinese "leadership" in the region.

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