SYDNEY, April 28 — Australia has asked the Chinese ambassador to explain what it called a threat of “economic coercion” in response to Canberra’s push for an international inquiry into the
Cheng Jingye, Beijing’s ambassador to Australia, told a local newspaper yesterday that Chinese consumers could boycott Australian beef, wine, tourism and universities in response. The Chinese embassy published a summary of the conversation on its website later today, which said Cheng had “flatly rejected the concern expressed from the Australian side”.
Australia wanted to maintain a positive relationship with China, but would also seek other opportunities in places such as India and the European Union, he said. Trade with the European Union was worth A$114.3 billion and India A$30.3 billion in 2018/19.
China do not like being criticised, they portray themselves to their citizens as always being right and the whole world is wrong, this is what you get when you deal with a totalitarian, one party communist state.
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