Fortescue China psy-ops take in The Australian

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Where’s my bag of silver, Andrew? I want to change my mind too! From Sarah-Jane Tasker:

Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has called on Australian politicians to stop anti-Chinese rhetoric, warning it will impact future business talks between the two countries.

Mr Forrest, who met with Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday, told The Australian that whether it was from Greens, Labor or Liberals, edging out the small “paranoid” voter with anti-China rhetoric was incredibly costly to everyone living in Australia.

“China has choices like Australia has choices,” the Fortescue Metals Group chairman said.

“They don’t have to procure from us. They don’t have to invite us up to their country and their economy will dwarf the US economy one day.”

* The reporter travelled to the Boao Forum for Asia as a guest of Fortescue Metals Group

Kowtow now plebs!

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.