Peter Hartcher, International Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, joins Michael for a discussion of China and its relation to Australia.

 

While most Australians are reasonably comfortable with a Japanese company owning some Australian food labels, they’re uncomfortable with a Chinese company doing the same.

 

People are rightly concerned about Chinese companies & Chinese institutions buying into Australian assets, because they are very different from Canadian companies, American pension funds or British companies or German conglomerates. 

 

Those institutions have a very obvious separation from the state.  In China, the government seems to penetrate everything… and this makes people understandably uncomfortable. 

Peter Hartcher, International Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, joins Michael for a discussion of China and its relation to Australia.
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While most Australians are reasonably comfortable with a Japanese company owning some Australian food labels, they&rsquo;re uncomfortable with a Chinese company doing the same.
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People are rightly concerned about Chinese companies &amp; Chinese institutions buying into Australian assets, because they are very different from Canadian companies, American pension funds or British companies or German conglomerates.&nbsp;
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Those institutions have a very obvious separation from the state.&nbsp; In China, the government seems to penetrate everything&hellip; and this makes people understandably uncomfortable.&nbsp;

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