When Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced that his maxim for foreign affairs would be “less Geneva and more Jakarta”, he was reflecting a reality which seems to have eluded many in Australia’s diplomatic club, notwithstanding Julia Gillard’s rhetoric concerning the “Asian Century”. As Abdul-Latif Halimi, editor of The International Spectator, puts it, “Australia’s dominance and transactional approach to the relationship will have to give way to a …