The newly installed Deputy Prime Minister of Australia Barnaby Joyce has indicated he will take a strong stance on China and climate change policies in Australia. Joyce told his first party room meeting after winning majority support in a leadership spill on that Australia’s freedom could be challenged as other superpowers rise in the Asia-Pacific, pushing out the pax-Americana (American-led peace) that has been in place in the region since the end of World War II. “The times that we live in are different to the times we were born into, and certainly what our parents were born into,” Joyce said on June 22. “Our liberties and freedoms that we took as a birthright and never really thought about in the future might be challenged like they never have before. We need to ensure that we give our children, our grandchildren, the strength and the liberties and the capacity to say what …