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China has accused Australia and Japan of prvoking tensions in the Asia-Pacific region after their foreign and defence ministers met in Tokyo days after Beijing staged its largest military parade in decades.

In an editorial on Monday, the state-run China Daily said the meeting between Australian ministers Penny Wong and Richard Marles and their Japanese counterparts “sought to provoke China on issues that concern its core interests”.

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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.