It’s simple. Either Labor cuts China ties or it stays in opposition

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A terrific piece at Domain on the weekend describes the state of China ties within the ALP:

In mid-May, a small sticker appeared on a Labor senator’s office door in Parliament House. To an untrained eye it was innocuous – four wolf’s claw marks on a clear background. But it was a symbol of what was becoming parliament’s most talked-about exclusive society.

The logo was confirmation that Victorian senator Raff Ciccone had been inducted into the “Wolverines”, a bipartisan group established to speak up against China’s growing assertiveness.

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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.