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The AFR’s China lackeys can’t get enough of Donald Trump. From Junket Jen:
…from Australia’s perspective, the most immediate challenge is confronting the increasing assertiveness of China just as the US withdraws from its traditional engagement in the region and its active support for the “rules-based international order” it has championed for more than half a century.
That leaves Australia and other countries trying to combat the growing Chinese influence and economic activity in the region without the usual diplomatic and economic cover of a US umbrella.
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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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