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Does business have the courage to confront China?

6 May 2020

5:00 AM

6 May 2020

5:00 AM

When Andrew Forrest got up and introduced a Chinese official to an Australian press conference, I was gobsmacked at the lack of judgement. How could an Australian leader in business, someone I respected immensely for his courage and character, allow himself to be so blatantly used like this?  

Then I read the West Australian.  

Proprietor Kerry Stokes mounted a passionate defence of Chinese wet markets, saying: “The facts are throughout the entire Asian region wet markets are the only way to trade produce … People have got to respect that’s the way they’ve conducted themselves and traded for years and generations. 

“If we want to interfere with what...

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