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Sat, 24 Apr 2021 04:30   Su-Lin Tan

China-Australia relations: consumers pockets on both sides will foot the bill for ‘trade battle’, expert says

Relations between China and Australia have become fraught over the past year after Canberra pushed for an international probe into the origin of the coronavirus without diplomatic consultations beforehand, and Beijing eventually responded with a number of trade blocks on wine, barley, cotton, copper, coal, sugar and lobsters. We look at the issues in this series.Everyday consumers and traders in China and Australia will ultimately pay the price of the political conflict between the two…

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