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Relax, losing access to China won't make us the 'poor white trash of Asia'

  • Written by John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland

In another round of the increasingly bitter exchanges between China and Australia, a columnist for China’s Global Times, Yu Lei, suggested that a further decoupling from China will make former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s famous prediction a reality:

Australia would become the “poor white trash of Asia.”

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