Is the US setting Australia up versus China?

Monday 13 February 2023

So says some goose:

“The United States is not preparing to go to war against China. The United States is preparing Australia to go to war against China.”

Beijing has seized on the words of a former diplomat to portray Australia as the “Ukraine” of South East Asia.

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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.