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Trump has taken a dump on Australia this morning.
Andrew Hastie is unwisely fighting back.
“This is a new stage of history. This is a new way of doing business. I think the global rules-based order that we’ve relied upon for the last 85 years for our security is now dead. And I think it’s a wake-up call for Australia that we must take care of things that only we can take care of.
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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.