Trade disputes, detained Australians raised in meeting with Chinese minister
Australia’s top diplomat has raised China’s trade sanctions, the plight of detained Australians and strategic tensions during the first visit by a senior Chinese government official in six years.
As producers suffering from China’s economic coercion hope that an agreement over barley tariffs could be the catalyst for an end to other trade impediments, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade secretary Jan Adams welcomed China’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ma Zhaoxu to Canberra.
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