https://www.scmp.com/rss/507214/feed John Quiggin is an Australian economist, a Professor and an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and a Laureate Fellow at the University of Queensland, and a member of the Board of the Climate Change Authority of the Australian Government. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com In another round of the increasingly bitter exchanges between China and Australia, a columnist for China’s Global Times, Yu Lei, suggested that a further decoupling from China would make the famous prediction of Singapore’s former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew a reality: Australia would become the “poor white trash of Asia”. The “white trash” debate took place 30 to 40 years ago and caused a lot of hand-wringing. Yet, contrary to predictions at the time, Australian incomes and living standards... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3101185/never-mind-what-lee-kuan-yew-said-losing-access-china-wont-make?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3101185/never-mind-what-lee-kuan-yew-said-losing-access-china-wont-make?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 11 Sep 2020 21:00:11 +0000