Scott Morrison's new vision for Australia accepts the old global order is changing

We got rich and we assumed China would become just like us.

Why were we surprised that China began acting like the big power that it is.

The Chinese Communist Party is brittle and doesn't like criticism?

Scott Morrison says it's wrong to describe this return of great power competition as a new Cold War.

He's right that it's not like the old Cold War: China and the West are interconnected in ways that the old Soviet Union and America's allies were not.

And just like in the 1950s, this Cold War is deeply ideological.

Just because Morrison doesn't recognise a Cold War, doesn't mean Xi Jinping isn't already fighting one.

French writer and former Beijing correspondent Francois Bougon says September 3, 2015 may go down as the date when the new Cold War began.

Xi has crafted a narrative of China against the West which he says seeks to humiliate the Chinese people.

Adamson says China, as a global power, cannot "escape scrutiny or debate" and warns the Communist Party that it's not at the point where it can "set the terms of its engagement with the world".

That may be the problem: China believes it can dictate terms and, when it deems fit, punish countries like Australia.

But China is a great power and it will act like it — and demands to be treated like it