ScoMo bashes cheating China as Aussie trust in Beijing collapses

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It’s the great Aussie foreign policy tradition. When we come to a fork in road between the US and China we take it. In his first major speech today comes ScoMo:

“Trade tensions have escalated. The collateral damage is spreading. The global trading system is under real pressure,” the Prime Minister will say in a speech to be delivered on Wednesday.

“Global growth projections are being wound back.”

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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.