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Lordy, via the AFR, I’m sure they didn’t actually use the word “China”:
Australia’s spy chief and top diplomat have warned major Australian boards about the possibility of further trade disruption and cyber attacks from China, in an effort to help the business community better understand the Turnbull government’s tough line on Beijing.
The briefings by Duncan Lewis, director general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and Frances Adamson, secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, have been conducted in recent months with companies that have major trade exposure to China, according to two sources.
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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.
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