‘The worst thing we could do is pick one over the other’: an Australian economist on why US-China competition is ‘a gift’

Australia has very strong relationships with China and the US, and ought to regard that as a great advantage, economist John Edwards says. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

John Edwards wants us to chill out about China.

A former top economic adviser to Paul Keating in the early 1990s, Edwards has been a major figure in the private and public sectors over the past three decades.