Australian Politics China American Cold War

God bless Paul Keating

Friday 17 March 2023

What an entertainer Pauk Keating is! Love him or hate him, he is the political talent of a half-century.

This is not an idle observation today and it comes with an enormous irony. Having spent the last few years demanding that Australia shut up and kow tow to China, it is the former PM himself that has evoked the most passionate and loud debate about China in modern times.

A lot of it is drivel but bravo for having it:

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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.