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Selling Beijing the rope

Trade with China masks more sinister intentions

9 May 2020

9:00 AM

9 May 2020

9:00 AM

When are we going to start getting real about China? When are we going to stop pretending that China is potentially a normal nation like the United States or Britain or even India that we can keep trading with to our mutual benefit, while waiting for its supposed emerging middle class to soften its communist aggressiveness and turn it into a hail-fellow-well-met fully paid-up member of the comity of civilised nations in pursuit of nothing more sinister than universal peace and prosperity?

When are we going to open our eyes to the enormous threat that China poses to Australia? – and...

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