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Deciding whether to go at all has been a hand-wringing exercise for many. This has involved balancing the need to engage with the world’s second-largest economy and Australia’s largest trading partner with the risk of being labelled a cheerleader for Mr Xi’s authoritarian regime. This does not worry Mr Forrest, whose enthusiastic support for the business relationship with China earned him sharp criticism from critics of Mr Xi’s regime. “You saw the deep criticism that Forrest is a Sinophile. I’ve never heard more crap,” he told The Australian Financial Review Business Summit earlier this month. On this trip, Mr Forrest...
