China has come out of COVID-19 “absolutely laughing”, Aussie journalist says

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Video Image Can Australia survive without China? iPhones, cars, furniture could all rise in cost if our trade with China stalls. The Australian Financial Review's Michael Smith and the ABC's Bill Birtles flew out of Shanghai. Source: ABC Source:Supplied A journalist who was recently forced to flee China on the advice of the Australian government says the country has come out of COVID-19 “absolutely laughing”. Bill Birtles, who was the ABC’s China correspondent in Beijing from 2015 until a few weeks ago, said it was a “parallel world” between what was being heard about COVID-19 there compared to elsewhere. “It...