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Belad Al-karkhey

Australia needs to step up to end tech-fuelled cold war

Economist Yanis Varoufakis at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

A new economic era fuelled by tech giants is to blame for Australia being pulled into a political game of chess between US and China, a prominent Greek economist has warned.

And Australia had a duty to help de-escalate what has become a cold war between the world's two super powers.

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