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Riding the dragon with Bob Carr

22 February 2018

4:49 PM

22 February 2018

4:49 PM

The ‘little dragons’ of southeast Asia, including the Philippines, Thailand, Laos and Indonesia share the same problem Australia has with China.

How to ‘ride the dragon’, keep Chinese investment and tourists coming, while not sacrificing national sovereignty while doing so. It’s been called ‘riding the dragon’ and for many of the wet-rice lands, it is a foregone conclusion; Chinese money will eventually subvert and submerge, roll over those with little power to resist.

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