China sends missile, Wong sends email

Friday 5 September 2025

Canberra is in the grip of the most cowardly pack of no-hopers anybody can remember.

Earlier this year, Australian passenger planes were targeted by live missiles in the Tasman Sea with no warning.

The moment a Virgin Airlines pilot raised the alarm about a live-firing exercise by Chinese warships in the Tasman Sea can be revealed after Nine News obtained audio of cockpit calls under freedom of information laws.

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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.