State premiers bend the knee in Beijing

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Last week it was Dan Andrews. Now it is Mark McGowan:

West Australian Premier Mark McGowan will lead a five-day trade mission to China to reconnect with the state’s largest trading partner – and unlike his Victorian counterpart, he’s taking the media.

What, and that makes it OK? It’s also Annastacia Palaszczuk:

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is planning an official trip to China later this year, following in the footsteps of her Victorian and Western Australian counterparts.

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Expect Peter Malinauskas and Chris Minns to go next given all are competing over the same thing: China kiddies to debase their universities further.

It’s like the last seven years never happened. That the 14 conditions to end democracy never happened. That the Taiwan war isn’t going to happen.

Trade diversification is forgotten.

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Treason is now so passe that it is indistinguishable from business as usual. Or indistinguishable from Labor.

Make that indistinguishable from Canberra. There is nothing but silence from former China hawk Peter Dutton who has eyes only for the three Beijing-controlled federal seats the LNP lost in the last election.

Tell me what happens if mass immigration turbocharges that number to six?

About the author
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.