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Frances Adamson: businesses need a plan B for China


Frances Adamson: businesses need a plan B for China
The former DFAT boss and soon-to-be Governor of South Australia says improving relations with Australia’s biggest trading partner will involve more than a ‘reset’.
“We hope that one day it will be possible again to have conversations with China,” says former DFAT head Frances Adamson of what might come next in the Canberra-Beijing relationship. 
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Frances Adamson, Australia’s top diplomat and soon-to-be Governor of South Australia, has spent much of her 34-year public service career focused on China.
She’s the trailblazing first female head of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, a trusted adviser to both sides of politics and an eyewitness to China’s extraordinary transformation from an inward-looking, economically stunted sleeping giant into the industrialised, forceful, outwardly assertive form it’s adopted under Pres ....

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