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Australia would be among the biggest economic losers from a new cold war

  • Written by Rod Tyers, Winthrop Professor of Economics, The University of Western Australia
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If tensions between the Western world and China and Russia led to a split into two separate financial and trading systems, Australia would be among the countries most hurt.

We ran the numbers on this earlier this year for the West Australian Governor’s Strategic Foresight Dialogue. At the time the possibility...

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