First Indonesia, now China. Are we being gamed? The timing of the complaint is coincidence, isn't it? But China will benefit from Australia's other diplomatic trouble, created by the leak of intelligence information stolen by a traitor now given asylum in Russia - and its language is strangely aggressive: Beijing has delivered an angry rebuke over what it says are "irresponsible remarks" made by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop regarding Chinese territorial claims in the East China Sea. In what is shaping up to be the latest diplomatic headache for the Abbott government in Asia, the Chinese Foreign Ministry released a sternly worded statement on its website on Wednesday saying it had "lodged serious representations" requesting Ms Bishop to correct her statements or risk damaging bilateral relations. "It is completely a mistake for Australia to make irresponsible remarks on China's establishment of an air defence identification zone in the East China Sea, and the Chinese side will not accept it," Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in the statement. China urges Australia to correct its mistake immediately to prevent damaging Sino-Australia relations.,,, Under the new zone, China requires any aircraft entering the zone to notify authorities in advance and maintain radio contact â or risk military intervention. The move has been met with strong protests by Japan and the United States. I fear the West is being rolled back. The Snowden leaks are helping. Also exploiting the damage, East Timor now wants an explanation for the spying it claims we did during negotiations on the gas rights in the Timor Gap. 7.30 reports the claims that we bugged the East Timor cabinet room without saying what basis there is for them - other than that former US Ambassador Peter Galbraith once claimed their conversations were monitored. Even that twig was omitted by the ABC PM's report. Who cares about evidence now? And so the damage continues and our power weakens.