‘The worst thing we could do is pick one over the other’: an Australian economist on why US-China competition is ‘a gift’
John Edwards reflects on a changing world, economic statecraft and an AI-led manufacturing revival
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John Edwards wants us to chill out about China.
A former top economic adviser to Paul Keating in the early 1990s, Edwards has been a major figure in the private and public sectors over the past three decades.
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