While the government claims strong connections with the Trump camp, Australian ministers and officials have also met Biden advisers including Jake Sullivan, who was the policy director under Hilary Clinton when she was the US Secretary of State, Asian affairs specialist Kurt Campbell and foreign policy veteran Nicholas Burns.
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull said the Morrison government should prepare for the possibility that China could test Biden in the early days of his administration or clashed with Trump.
“I think a Biden administration would come as a relief to many people in…
