Up Late: Paranoia over China? Even village idiot can see there COULD have been a link

As fallout over the Telstra outage continues, Ben Harvey outlines reasons why speculation China played a hand wasn’t such a long bow to draw, given Bejing’s military aggression in the Pacific.

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Why speculation China played a hand wasn’t such a long bow to draw, given Bejing’s military aggression in the Pacific.  Plus, how a book written by former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd could be the key to China’s end game.

In tonight’s show, as fallout over the Telstra outage continues, Ben Harvey outlines reasons why speculation China played a hand wasn’t such a long bow to draw, given Bejing’s military aggression in the Pacific. Plus, how a book written by former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd could be the key to China’s end game.

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