Albo’s cowards’ China reset collapses into Morrison insults

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The MSM has been enjoying its usual fixation with symbolism over substance with the arrival of a like-minded Labor government. Such topics as transgender sports, infinitesimal CENSUS drivel and other social causes have all been furiously debated.

It is, therefore, something of a relief to find this obsession with fantasy over reality has been clubbed to death upon its appearance in the bilateral Chinese relationship:

Australia’s acting prime minister has declared the government won’t take any “backward step” in pursuing the national interest, after Chinese state media said hopes of a diplomatic reset were “diminishing by the day”.

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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.