Canberra to call Beijing's bluff over economic boycott threat

Mr Cheng rejected Australia's concerns over his comments and "called on Australia to put aside ideological bias" and do more to promote bilateral relations.Both Australia and China will now look to de-escalate tensions after trading barbs over the past two days, according to senior sources within the Australian government.

The tit-for-tat has led to souring political relationships but new research from the Australian National University shows the impact on trade is likely to be minimal. "For most cases, the general finding of either insignificant or small and short-lived effects of conflict shocks on export growth holds," Mr Agarwal said.

Jane Golley, the director of the Australian Centre on China in the World, said the research showed there was a minimal relationship between political and trade outcomes."The economist could look at this and say 'great, the political relationship doesn't matter we can continue to poke them and it doesn't matter, the trade will keep trading'," she said.

Agricultural exports could be more susceptible to consumer boycotts if a strong anti-Australian sentiment takes hold, but this was more likely to be driven by individual consumers.

China will not boycott Australian products and services because 1. Boycotting will increase prices for China 2. Australian products are often better quality and safer

Could you please do an article on how the Australian government sells citizenship to Chinese through Business Visa pathways. We don't need to give them citizenship in exchange for exporting our products. These Visas are allowing China to slowly take control of our country Auspol

Many wont know China is standing at quicksands when they hv these kind of intimidations made. Look at the massive exodus of foreign investment and manufacturers from China, the shrinking foreign reserves, the confiscated passports from its ppl feared of losing hard currency....

China threat to others everything and everytime, should we tolerate and give in every time?

Can we please, for gods sake, just fix this covid19 issue and get the economy up and running and people back into jobs before the government start an economic war with China?!?! Just hold the politics for a bit and fix our country. Put your people first!? Jesus Christ!

Don’t forget China only want to take other countries resources till to last

Sure. Just go ahead to stop Doing business with China . Stop all their investments completely, and hope the property prices crashed including stock market ! Young people could then afford to buy their first home . Wonderful 👍

Hopefully the Chinese boycott our baby formula.

We don't need China 🇨🇳 money‼️ We don't want China 🇨🇳 money‼️

China never learned that threats don’t help you make friends. Neither does broken promises, or infiltration/invasion of another country by floodgates of students that misbehave. 🤷🏻 CCP

Deal with evil CCPChina is not a solution but infiltrate by 🇨🇳 ChinaVirus19 is the first step to destroy many countries & people,if evil CCPChina not fall this time,more awful things will come fm them after. CCPChina killing people indirectly & make global economic recession.

Haha let's wait and see

Does this mean the Chinese will not be able to strip our supermarket shelves of baby formula, or buy our water resources, land, companies etc any more?

The CCP ambassador is showing how weak he is “when keeping face goes wrong”

Aussies are xenophobic and racist and practice appartheid against regular immigrants who pay taxes.

Regardless of what Aust does, China will reduce students and tourists travelling abroad to save their cash reserves. Current pandemic has just bought forward timeline

The economy of China is collapsing, it's not the saviour to help anyone , better DecouplefromChina fast

Better be careful, next they will be blaming Australia started the coronavirus from a kangaroo.

Dq

LOL

Exactly. Friendly relations require strong words and a commitment to move forward with diplomacy even during difficult situations. FlattenTheCurve ScottMorrisonMP JoshFrydenberg AlboMP SenatorWong zalisteggall tanya_plibersek

Redisthenewbla3 To CCP trade is only a tool for a) earning capital for the regime; b) buying endorsement of totalitarian values from Western countries. So free world could never satisfy its needs! Why don't just take this opportunity to re-evaluate if this is a sustainable relationship?

If we don’t stop CCP at this point, they will further threaten the world in any means. Like invasion, virus or even economic war.

Beijing knows Australia is becoming China’s colony, if Australia keeps on cozying up to them for short term money

Still waiting for a mathematician to tell us the odds that a virus would accidentally leak at the precise moment China and Russia would love to deploy a bio weapon i.e. when 20,000 US troops began arriving in Europe for war games in January near Russia.

Communist China is a threat to the whole world

I personally won’t call it a bluff based on how ridiculous the diplomats from CCP China act recently. But what Australia plans to deal with the economic boycott especially in education field. We all know CCP Chinese dominate technically every school. How 🇦🇺 compensate them?

Australia population 27mill China pop 1 Billion. Blame Asian people not corporate people

CCP is invading the world silently, this is more terrible than Nazi

chanfong985 I don't believe in our leadership taking any actions. All are afraid of Xi. China will continue their nefarious ways! So, move over, and let 'em steal. realDonaldTrump SecPompeo StateDept USTradeRep DeptofDefense EsperDoD marcorubio SenRickScott SenTomCotton - Wake up!

ScottMorrisonMP couldn't bluff his way out of Engadines Maccas

Respect increased tremendously for Australia.. The country did well even before Chinese investment or tourists came here..china should also take back all the Chinese origin people if it does that

it is a must!

Stop trading with Communist China. It is such a pernicious country.

Kick CCP out! Why let them ruin your country ?!

Australia you have our support. Stand up and say no to those Chinese money.

China is a global threat by spreading deadly virus around, paralysing int'l traffic & medical facilities, killing over 200,000 ppl worldwide w/o apology, slowing down world economies & scapegoating others for her sins - who wanna be her trade partner w/o investigating the truth?

China keeps taking advantages of other western democratic countries in trading and finance. But it continues its authoritarianism and suppression in the country and even in the world. The WuhanVirus pandemic is a sign that we should not ignore the threat of China anymore.

An ant is going to call bluff on a praying mantis. We had a chance to get over Covid quickly and Scomo Dutton Payne are blowing it all up and it will cost us all a fortune. China will buy elsewhere.

Appeasing a thuggish regime like CCP is an invitation for more bullying or even more lethal economic wrecking pandemic

SummerC88006032 👍👍👍 Go get'em! antichinazi

China is no longer a trustworthy partner to build a reliable, safe, civilized & peaceful world. CCP brings lies, censorship, torture & virus to the world. Int companies in China should find a new partner now. World is much better w/o CCP.

China may plan to shirk responsibility on this. They co-op w/ WHO to conceal the truth of WuhanVirus outbreak and refusing virus experts to offer help. & now want to give help to countries who are suffering from their mistake. Hold them accountable.

No wonder CCP is called thuggish regime

Go go go Australia! 💪💪💪 antichinazi

China is always threatening economic consequences to Japan and South Korea. It seems other economics will collapse if China did nothing. Victim of Dunning-Kruger effect.

Not them let’s boycott them

Democracy must not kowtow to the totalitarian China empire.

LazyMasu BoycottChina BoycottChineseProducts CCPChina is a great threat to the free world.

It's a good move to reveal the truth of China covering up and silence the news of WuhanVirus at the beginning.

Get Andrew Robbery and Gladys on the job? Leave Trump to do his own campaigning!

ChinaLiedPeopleDied WHOLiedPeopleDied

Can't wait for this retaliation if it means cheap lobsters forever :)

Still no apologies from the Chinese government and yet they're trying to bully western governments and buy their way into good books as well.

Plenty of other countries sell cheap faulty rubbish.

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GOOD

Good. We are not going to be manipulated by a despotic communist regime. Time to staop the CCP buying up of Australia. auspol

Good luck aus.. the bear is mightier than the spirit of God, believe me

All to appease Trump in my opinion. The USA shouldn't have outsourced their national security to the WHO. The USA has 50 times the number of deaths we have, per capita. Trump and Australia are responsible for ourselves.

more than 80 Australians died. Many of them could have been saved had China not hidden the information of the spread.

Australia should prohibit any exports from Chinese owned companies who work out of Australia

agree 100%

Good work Aussie , no nation should bow down to any of the super powers be China , Russia or USA

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