LettersTikTok law contradicts Blinken’s call for level playing field

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I refer to the report, “US-China relations: Antony Blinken calls for level playing field for business and hits out at ‘non-market practices’” (April 25). Recently US President Joe Biden signed into law a bill on TikTok which requires its parent company ByteDance to sell the app or see it banned in the country.

There are far too many unsatisfactory silences in Australia’s domestic politics and international relations, on foreign policy in particular – for example, any recent detailed public evaluation of the ANZUS treaty has yet to appear, as well as a discussion of the future of the Pine Gap joint defence facility and the national security rationale for, and full implications of, the acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines.