Galloping Chinese demand for our resources transformed the Australian economy in the first 10 years of the new millennium, but the GFC and end-of-decade political turmoil put the country on edge.
When Colleen Ryan flew into Shanghai to be The Australian Financial Review’s China correspondent, “there was a certain pride in being an Australian in China”.
“Australians were very popular,” Ryan recalls. “There was this feeling they ‘got’ China.”
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Original URL: https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/the-china-effect-how-the-resources-boom-galvanised-australia-20220321-p5a6dm
