Rebuking critics who said he would leave no mark on the world stage, with a few vigorous pumps of his elbow Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has brought the handshake back to public life after COVID-19.
Defence Minister Marles’ greeting of his Chinese counterpart, General Wei Fenghe, at a security summit in Singapore brought an end to a period of more than two years in which Australia, alone among its allies, did not communicate officially with its biggest trading partner.
