Dutton puts boot into Angry China

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Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says there’s “no point pretending there’s nothing to see here” on China, as a split opens between senior ministers over Andrew Hastie’s incendiary warning that Beijing poses a major threat to Australia.

In a strong defence of his colleague on Friday, Mr Dutton said the former SAS captain and chair of Parliament’s powerful intelligence and security committee is “privy to a lot of information and intelligence briefings that other members of Parliament aren’t” and was entitled to speak out.

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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.