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Kevin Hogan says PM should have same ‘exuberance’ to meet Trump as he did with China’s leader
Kevin Hogan, the shadow minister for trade, just spoke to RN Breakfast about prime minister Anthony Albanese’s visit to China this week, describing it a “working holiday” and dinging the PM for not having the “same exuberance … to meet with the US president”. Hogan said:
Look I think it’s good that the prime minister went to China. I think it’s good that he did the panda thing and reenacted Gough Whitlam’s Great Wall of China visit. I don’t have a criticism with that.
They’re an important trading partner. I’m glad the prime minister has visited there and been there because of that reason. I’m just also adding that it’s a real shame he doesn’t have the same exact exuberance about doing that with a US president.
That’s certainly the feedback that we get around the place, you know, speaking with CEOs and meeting with company boards and the like and with economists.
You know, there is a real sense that this volatility and unpredictability and uncertainty is really a defining and an ongoing feature of the global economy, and our own economy is not immune from that.
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Author : Martin Farrer
Publish date : 2025-07-17 21:59:00
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