{"id":25480,"date":"2020-12-08T01:30:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T16:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/08\/economic-decoupling-from-china-would-be-act-of-national-self-sabotage-labor-and-liberal-mps-agree"},"modified":"2020-12-08T01:30:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T16:30:44","slug":"economic-decoupling-from-china-would-be-act-of-national-self-sabotage-labor-and-liberal-mps-agree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25480","title":{"rendered":"Economic decoupling from China would be &#8216;act of national self-sabotage&#8217;, Labor and Liberal MPs agree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Watts and Dave Sharma also say Chinese Australian communities are assets and warn against \u2018descent into McCarthyism\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Australia would be shooting itself in the foot if it tried to untangle itself from economic reliance on China, politicians from both major parties have declared, while warning there is no end in sight to the turbulence in the relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Labor MP Tim Watts cautioned on Tuesday that economic decoupling from China \u2013 an idea that is advanced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/may\/05\/scott-morrisons-push-for-who-reforms-a-herding-cats-exercise-liberal-senator-says\">some of the most hawkish politicians<\/a> in Canberra \u2013 would be \u201can unprecedented act of national self-sabotage\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/08\/economic-decoupling-from-china-would-be-act-of-national-self-sabotage-labor-and-liberal-mps-agree\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Watts and Dave Sharma also say Chinese Australian communities are assets and warn against \u2018descent into McCarthyism\u2019Australia would be shooting itself in the foot if it tried to untangle itself from economic reliance on China, politicians from both&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,536,324,6,50,735,571],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-economy","category-australian-politics","category-business","category-china","category-labor-party","category-liberal-party"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25481,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25480\/revisions\/25481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}