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What happens to 100k Aussies if CPC smashes Hong Kong?

David Llewellyn-Smith
Monday, 19 August 2019
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Ambassador Cheng Jingye told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age that the affairs of Hong Kong were “solely the internal affairs of China”, warning that any effort to “mess up” the former British outpost was doomed to fail as pro-democracy protesters there again gathered en masse on Sunday.

…The intervention follows escalating rhetoric between Canberra and Beijing after Prime Minister Scott Morrison urged Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam to “listen carefully” and work towards a peaceful resolution.

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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.