Please China, turn the trade war guns on Australia!

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Via Goldman:

“…things could change pretty quickly, particularly against the backdrop of China’s frustrations about Australia’s decisions to ban Huawei, target China with recent foreign interference laws, and allude to China as responsible for recent cyberattacks on the Australian government.”

A “very significant” and “targeted pullback” could see Chinese tourism volume fall 60 per cent next year and education could fall 50 per cent, compared to Goldman’s “base case” for growth of 5 per cent.

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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.