Claims

impose trade restrictions


Elaboration

China has been accused by Australia of unfair imposition of trade restrictions. The claim points to recent disputes over barley and wine. The claim relies on a deliberately one-eyed view of trade that casts Australia as some kind of champion of free trade and fairness, despite its record at the WTO. Australia's ban on Huawei on spurious grounds of national security, at the behest of the US, without any reference to the WTO, is counted as virtuous, while China's reaction of taking Australia to the WTO on the grounds of dumping is considered coercive.

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