Chinese investment increasingly unwelcome in Australia

ABC Newsline

The Australian Opposition has jumped on public concern about China’s state owned enterprises investing in Australia, by declaring such practice is rarely in the national interest. But Dr James Laurenceson, president of the Chinese Economics Society of Australia, says Australia needs more Chinese investment, not less.

The Australian government has begun to question the motives of China’s state owned enterprises investing in Australia. But the Opposition leader, Tony Abbott, has gone one step further, declaring such investment rarely in the national interest. Dr James Laurenceson is the president of the Chinese Economics Society of Australia.