CCP celebrates 70th birthday by abusing Australia

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We begin with The Australian providing a platform to the Chinese diplomatic propaganda machine of ambassador Cheng ­Jingye who says Australia should ­remember it depends on China for its economic success:

…he said it could take ­another 30 years before China could be considered developed — a timeline that could deliver the country up to three more decades of concessional treatment under international trade and climate change agreements.

…“What China aims (for) is not domination of the world; we are aiming for a better life for our own people,” he said. “Yes, we are going to grow richer and stronger. But we have no intention to seek ­hegemony, we have no intention to seek expansion, no intention to seek spheres of influence.”

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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.