Joe Hockey, unshackled by the burden of high office, has done just that in an exclusive Sky News interview.
“At one point in 2015, when things had begun to heat up between the United States and China, President Obama flat out asked Prime Minister [Tony] Abbott to stop selling Australian iron ore to China.” “I said to the Secretary of the US Treasury, ‘are you going to buy our iron ore?’. Of course they weren’t”.
Just a year earlier, in 2014, on the sidelines of the APEC Summit, the Treasurer met with his Chinese counterpart, the Finance Minister Lou Jiwei. Worried about his budget and the survival of Fortescue metals, Hockey threatened to merge BHP and Rio Tinto.How the Treasurer of the day would have pulled that off with two private companies is questionable, but this is another demonstration of the hard-ball game of international negotiations.“The problem is, Beijing has gone off-piste. It’s focused more on preserving the power of the Communist Party than doing what’s right for the future of China”.
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ljayes JoeHockey Ah Joe, the man appointed by his cronies to an extremely well paid sinecure. The age of entitlement is over apparently.
ljayes JoeHockey When coalition won govt in sept 2013… hockey, as treasurer, was the first cabinet leaker in dec. Worked hard to undermine Abbott thinking he’d be next, only to find he was so useless as treasurer, his colleagues turned & he then needed abbotts backing to remain treasurer. True.
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ljayes JoeHockey In breaking and millenia old news economically powerful nations are exerting their influence. In other news Rome has a new province called Brittania and the Dulles Bros have installed a guy really keen on Helicopters.
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