Why is China punishing Australia? The human impact of the trade war | Four Corners
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They do it to everyone.
They had a problem with their pig population and getting a new type of swine flu. They had to cull a large percentage. So they decided to make up a bs claim that the canola from Canada was tainted and they stopped all shipments.
I think it's only fair to point out that ever since 2016 after the signing of the FTA between China and AU, AU has slapped tariffs on Chinese goods ignoring the FTA. The FTA would have AU treat China as a market economy, thus the requirement for dumping would be if China sells AU cheaper than what is sold internally. AU ignored that, and instead counted China as a non-market economy, thus using a basket of goods to use as a measuring stick for dumping.
The point is, AU and China have been slapping tariffs on each other for political reasons. And unfortunately, these political reasons are internal political reasons for both states, that is to say, it isn't meant to tell the other to do something else.
To put it simply, China doesn't expect AU to change, nor does China think AU would change, but rather China is using AU as target practice. Coercion is meant to get the other side to the table. By all accounts, Chinese counterparts of the AU trade and commerce dept have ignored their calls. Now, there may be a chance that this is just a bargaining strategy, but so far it seems like China simply has given up on any movement from the Morisson government, it has no interest in dealing with Morrison whom they believe is just an American stooge, aim to contain China. It also seems to be why Morrison's multiple calls for de-escalation and how he doesn't want to contain China fell on deaf ears.
This is just China showing both non-AU US allies that the US would not come to your aid when the US asks you to do something against China and China retaliates and also shoring up internal support for the current leadership. Like Nick Bisley wrote in 2017, the Chinese elites have sour on AU, and bashing AU is simply good politics.
Then from the AU perspective, just like how the Chinese sour on AU, Australians also view China quite negatively thanks to various actors including China itself though not limited to China, it is good politics to bash China. A dairy company is of no national-strategic interest to AU or China, but banning a Chinese company from buying a dairy firm owned by the Japanese in AU is great politics, it is great politics when you announce it, and it is great politics when China inevitably make a comment about it.
China's AU bashing is aimed at two audiences, whereas AU's China bashing is also aimed at two audiences. Both are good internally, but AU's action for the US has seen little benefit to AU. With the Phase 1 deal, American goods are going to China while Australian goods languish. French wine and American wine replaces Australian wine.
I would say in a game of geopolitical grandstanding, AU simply tried to punch above her weight and failed.
Interesting title. "Punishing".
I don't get it, this seems like plain old international geo-politics as superpower nations assert themselves wherever they can..?