Colin Teese explains why – despite the emergence of trade blocs – our attempts to “become part of Asia” have been rebuffed.Readers of News Weekly won’t need to be told of the harm done to Australia’s economy – to manufacturing industry and, more recently, to agriculture – by the impact of free trade, globalism, and its fellow traveller, competition policy.Also well-known is the impact of all this on our international trade. Imports of manufactures, let off the leash through a policy of free trad…