There were high hopes, but Trade Minister Don Farrell arrived back from China empty-handed. Conversation was apparently amicable. We were given assurances Chinese review of tariffs against Australian barley imports is on track.
That’s effectively Beijing telling us it will remove restrictions on Australian exports in its own good time and according to its own opaque priorities and principles. As usual, China is playing a longer game. We need to as well.
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Dr John Lee is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington DC. From 2016-18, he was the senior adviser to the Australian foreign minister.
