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The fugly geopolitics of China’s LNG bribe

David Llewellyn-Smith
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
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As I noted this morning, suddenly Australia is back in fashion in Beijing, via the AFR:

Beijing has signalled it is willing to rebuild its relationship with Australia under the Morrison government, and says there is no conflict between the two nations in the South Pacific despite concerns about China’s growing influence in the region.

The upbeat assessment of Australia’s relationship with its biggest trading partner followed a meeting between the countries’ foreign ministers in New York.

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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.