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Australia would be among the biggest economic losers from a new cold war

Written by Rod Tyers, Winthrop Professor of Economics, The University of Western Australia

If tensions between the Western world and China and Russia led to a split into two separate financial and trading systems, Australia would be among the countries most hurt.

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