Opinion piece published in The Australian Financial Review, Wednesday 31 July, 2019 by Alan Oxley (principal of ITS Global, former chairman of the GATT and former chair
of the Australian APEC Study Centre) and Innes Willox (Australian Industry Group Chief Executive):
"Much has been made of the uneasy and often tense security and military side of our China
relationship. The economic side of our relationship, driven by our trade surplus, is sadly often taken for granted Our trade conversation with China is patchy, sketchy and wafer thin and gives little confidence that it has the robustness to withstand a significant falling out over
security."