Wine has now joined beef, barley, coal and timber among the Australian exports that China’s Communist Party is threatening to quash as part of its intimidation campaign against Canberra.
China announced arbitrary tariffs between 107% and 212% on Australian wines Friday, citing antidumping rules. Perhaps this didn’t elicit the response Beijing had hoped, because on Sunday a Foreign Ministry spokesman sparked another diplomatic row by posting a fake image depicting an Australian soldier slitting the throat of an Afghan child….
