Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has given an update on Australia’s economy, saying it has weathered Beijing’s economic coercion and is encouraging businesses to continue diversifying away from the China market. The treasurer’s comments come just days after former Prime Minister Paul Keating wrote a scathing op-ed critical of the Morrison government’s handling of bilateral ties. Frydenberg told the Australian National University’s Crawford Leadership Forum on Sep. 6 that the current global environment was “very different” from those faced by previous Australian governments. “Those that advocated ‘The End of History’ in the early 1990s have been proven wrong,” the treasurer said referencing political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s book, “The End of History and the Last Man (1992),” claimed that with the fall of the Soviet Union, humanity’s evolution would end with free-market capitalism and democracy being the main form of government in the world. Frydenberg said that a “more confident and assertive China” …