Is China Becoming a Mafia State? - John Garnaut

John Garnaut is the China correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age newspapers. He has written for other publications including Caijing magazine, Tempo (Indonesia), The Diplomat (Australia) and the International Herald Tribune.

Recently his coverage has been recognised with a Walkley award for 'Scoop of the Year' for breaking the story that Rio Tinto's Stern Hu had been arrested; the Citigroup award for business journalism ; and a finalist for the Graham Perkins Australian journalist of the year.

Before arriving in Beijing with his family in 2007 he was Economics Correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald, based at Parliament House in Canberra. In an earlier life he was a commercial lawyer in Melbourne. As a child he spent stints in Papua New Guinea and China.

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[lwglwglwg]

Communist China has always been a Mafia state.

[racont3ur]

Strugglle: that's the problem with you Chinese Communists. You think just because you're contributing to another country's growth, that you have the right to boss them around. Well Australia's economy is booming also because it sends VITALLY NEEDED mineral ores to China, which China needs for producing goods, so the benefit cuts both ways. It's mainland Chinese like you that put a bad name on Chinese people worldwide. BTW, I'm Chinese too, but thankfully not born and raised in China.

[stardaveable]

is this even a serious topic? this is like me saying, usa had connection of saudi, and because of this, america is a muslim nation... all you are offering is circumstantial examples, where is your statistic? where is your survey? where is your official study? please, give us another lecture of why is obama not a US citizen because your uncle's friend's roomate's brother said so... I just lost a whole lot respect for USC for even let you talk at all.

[Strugglle]

all western economy system collapse, this guy his Australian his country survive this great depression thanks to the chinese raw material demand, he didnot realise how his country to survive without chinese?

[Strugglle]

how someone graduate college without discipline? someone who college graduate or teaching college student using incendiary language against chinese system which benefited 1.4 bilion people, how about if i am using Aggresive comment against american system?

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