Revisiting the banana republic and other familiar destinations

There can be no denying that Australia has been lucky to be in a position to take advantage of China’s industrialisation and recent Asian economic exceptionalism in the face of a slow American recovery and continuing European crisis. Similarly, however, any downturn in China and other Asian economies will now negatively affect Australia, according to Dr Tom Conley in an opinion piece in The Conversation.  Read the full article here.