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This week on GeoPod, Tenjin Consulting's Alexander Downer and Georgina Downer talk to Grain Growers Chair Brett Hosking about the Australia-China barley dispute.  While the story of 2020 will undoubtedly be the the Covid-19 pandemic, for Australia it's also a story of the deteriorating relationship with China and its economic fallout. China has targeted a range of imports from Australia in retaliation for the Australian Government's decisions relating to foreign interference, Huawei, an independent inquiry into Covid-19, the US alliance, statements on Hong Kong, the South China Sea and human rights to name but a few. Australian exporters of beef, wine, lobster, sugar, timber, copper, coal, and barley have born the brunt of the biggest geopolitical story of our generation. The rise of an increasingly assertive Xi Jinping-led China. China is trying to make Australia the salutary tale for other countries who may seek to challenge China's interests.  For barley, the story begins in 2018 when China launched an investigation into allegations that Australia was dumping barley into the Chinese market and that Australia farmers were being subsidised in violation of WTO rules. China then placed a 80.5 per cent tariff on Australian barley, effectively blocking $500 million per annum in barley exports. This decision took place at the same time as Australia decided to ban Huawei from supplying equipment to Australia's 5G network. On 16 December 2020, Australia's Trade Minister Simon Birmingham announced Australia would take action in the World Trade Organization (WTO) over China's imposition of anti-dumping and countervailing duties on barley. The WTO process is not quick. There is no doubt that this dispute will take several years to settle. In the meantime, barley growers will need to find other markets or plant different crops or both. But, the future is still bright. As Brett says, the dispute with China is nothing compared to dealing with a crippling drought. Australian grain growers are used to working in the world's toughest conditions. When one market closes, others will open. And maybe, just maybe, the China market will open back up sooner rather than later.  Finally, Merry Christmas from the team at Tenjin Consulting!

NSW authorities are working frantically to trace anyone who may have been exposed to COVID-19 after two new cases were detected overnight, Australia’s Trade Minister Simon Birmingham says the World Trade Organisation will be engaged in a bid to settle an ongoing dispute with China over Australia’s barley exports, A Melbourne school has apologised after a group of Year 7 girls were made to kneel to have their hemlines checked, Tim Tszyu is well on his way to a World Title after he dismantled Kiwi Bowyn Morgan in a two-minute masterclass last night, And finally in showbiz news and the celebrities who made the most money in 2020 have been revealed   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

China has continued its attack on Australian exports, with its ban on timber now including products from Tasmania and South Australia.A notice from China's custom officials claimed pests had been detected in shipments of timber logs from the two Australian states.“Recently, the customs of Shanghai, Ningbo, Xiamen, and Qingdao intercepted live forest pests from imported logs from Tasmania and South Australia,” the notice said.“The relevant situation has been notified to the Australian authorities.”As a result, the country has banned any shipments that were sent from these states from December 3 in a bid to “prevent the pests entering China and to protect our country's forestry and ecological safety”.This is the latest in a series of trade attacks from the China, with the federal government revealing it is “increasingly concerned” by the sanctions.Earlier bans were also placed on timber exports from Queensland and Victoria.Australian lamb has also been added to the list of sanctioned products, along with barley and beef.China blocked imports from JBS Brooklyn and Australian Lamb Company, which were both briefly shut down due to COVID-19 outbreaks.However, the country had continued to accept shipments from US companies that have also experienced coronavirus outbreaks.Trade Minister Simon Birmingham told parliament the government had raised the concerns directly with Beijing and left open the option of taking a complaint to the World Trade Organisation.“These disruptions have increased significantly in recent months,” he said.“The targeted nature of Chinese government (sanctions) on Australian goods raises concerns about China's adherence to the letter and spirit of both its ChaFTA (China-Australia Free Trade Agreement) and WTO obligations.“We continue to raise issues of apparent potential discriminatory actions targeted against Australia. The Australian government is considering old dispute settlement options in order to support our exporters and ensure they can compete on fair terms.”The latest ban on Australian produce comes just days after Chinese authorities made a stunning claim that COVID-19 may have arrived in Wuhan from Australian frozen steak.An article in the Global Ti mes over the weekend argued that Western countries had attempted to “shift the narrative from their own shortcomings” by accusing Wuhan of being “where the coronavirus began”.“As the mounting sporadic outbreaks in China were found to be related to imported cold-chain products, with other parts of the world, including Europe and the American continent, reportedly discovering signs of the coronavirus earlier than Wuhan, it begs a new hypothesis – did the early outbreak in Wuhan originate from imported frozen food?” the publication wrote.The first coronavirus cases appeared in Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province, in December.The cases were initially linked to one of the city's controversial “wet markets”, with experts later saying the virus had likely jumped from wild animals to humans.Despite it being widely accepted that this is where the virus originated from, Chinese officials have recently been pushing new theories of how the outbreak occurred, with frozen imported food being one of the suggestions.The Global Times article claimed the Wuhan market used to sell “imported cold-chain seafood, such as king crab and arctic shellfish, as well as meat products from Brazil and Germany”.“The city also imported Australian steak, Chilean cherries and Ecuadorean seafood before 2019, according to the information from the website of the city's commerce bureau.”The article said customs data showed there had been a 174 per cent increase in frozen product imports into Hubei province in 2019 compared with the previous year.“The idea never crossed our minds before, but now it seems plausible that the virus may have been imported to Wuhan via imported cold-chain products,” Wuhan University disease researcher Yang Zhanqiu told the pu...

The federal government is hoping Kiwi backpackers will save farmers from harvest disaster, amid growing fears that labour shortages will drive up the price of fruit and vegetables. Trade Minister Simon Birmingham said there are "real labour shortages", and New Zealanders are uniquely positioned to help. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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China's actions on trade are not helping global confidence and the recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, Trade Minister Simon Birmingham says. - 코로나19 사태를 전후해 악화되기 시작한 호주와 중국의 마찰이 중국의 전방위 무역 보복 조치로 구체화되고 있다.

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Australia's Trade Minister Simon Birmingham joins this episode of The Briefing as we look at the growing trade tensions between Australia and China, and what Australia is going to do to fix it.   This year after our political leaders called for an independent inquiry into the origins of COVID-19 China announced restrictions on some of our key exports including Barley wine, timber, coal, copper ore, sugar and seafood, all of which are now on the banned list by China Customs.   So how bad is our relationship with China right now? How did we get here? Who is at fault? Is this a coordinated act of punishment out of Beijing? And has Australia been too outspoken for our own good? We're also joined by Geoff Raby AO, an Australian economist and diplomat and former Ambassador to China.     In today's headlines: More sponsors ditch Pete Evans over cartoon featuring neo-Nazi symbol Adelaide cluster continues to grow as thousands forced to isolate Australia and Japan agree 'in principle' to historic defence pact   Follow The Briefing Instagram: @thebriefingpodcast  Facebook: TheBriefingNewsAU Twitter: @TheBriefingAU  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Australia has signed what's been described as the world's largest free-trade deal. Sharri Markson and the Trade Minister Simon Birmingham discuss what this means for Australian business and for the ongoing trade tensions with China. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Trade Minister Simon Birmingham says Australian exports continue to pass through Chinese customs; producers reliant on tourism welcome Melburnians back into regional Victoria;

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Australia’s prime minister said Monday that his government is “very sad and concerned” by China's sentencing of an Australian man to death for drug trafficking, and that he had repeatedly raised with China the case of the 56-year-old former actor and motivational speaker.Karm Gilespie was arrested in 2013 at Baiyun Airport in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on charges of attempting to board an international flight with more than 7.5 kilograms (16.5 pounds) of methamphetamine in his check-in luggage.The Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court announced Saturday that Gilespie had been sentenced to death and ordered the confiscation of all of his personal property.Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Foreign Minister Marise Payne and other Australian officials had raised his case with their Chinese counterparts on a number of occasions.“I and the government are very sad and concerned that an Australian citizen, Mr. Karm Gilespie, has been sentenced to death in China,” Morrison told Parliament.“We will continue to provide Mr. Gilespie with consular assistance and engage China on his case. Our thoughts are with him, his family and his loved ones,” he added.The death sentence comes as bilateral relations are under extraordinary strain over Australia’s call for an independent investigation into the coronavirus pandemic, which started in China late last year.Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Monday that the sentence was unrelated to those tensions.“Applying the death penalty to drug crimes that cause extremely serious harm can help in deterring and preventing drug crimes,” Zhao said.Australia should “earnestly respect China’s judicial sovereignty. And the above-mentioned case has nothing to do with bilateral relations,” he added.Trade Minister Simon Birmingham has been trying without success to persuade his Chinese counterpart to accept a phone call over China’s decision to effectively end trade in Australian barley through crippling tariffs last month.China has also banned beef exports from Australia’s largest abattoirs and warned Chinese against visiting the country because of pandemic-related racism.Gilespie is among 62 Australians in detention in China, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said. Most were arrested on drug trafficking and fraud charges, The Australian newspaper reported. The department would not comment on what they were detained for.The Australian prisoners include Henry Chin, 40, who was sentenced to death in 2005 for attempting to send 270 grams (9.5 ounces) of methamphetamine to Australia a year earlier.Birmingham called Gilespie's sentence “distressing,” but said it shouldn’t necessarily be linked to disputes between China and Australia.Paul Monk, former head of China analysis for the Australian Defense Department, suspected there was a link.“He’s been in jail for seven years and only now has he been put through a Chinese-style trial and condemned to death for drug smuggling, so I think it’s hard not to see it in the present context of diplomatic confrontation,” Monk told Australian Broadcasting Corp.“It’s spiteful, it’s vicious really,” he added.Gilespie’s family asked friends not to speculate on his case.“Our family is very saddened by the situation,” the family said in a statement. “We also request that friends and acquaintances of Karm refrain from speculating on his current circumstances, which we do not believe assists his case.”Gilespie has 10 days to appeal his sentence.Gilespie made occasional appearances as a character in the popular Australian television crime drama “Blue Healers” in the 1990s and toured the country performing a one-man stage show he wrote about Australian poet Banjo Paterson before reinventing himself as an entrepreneur and motivational speaker.Singapore-based business coach Roger J. Hamilton said on social media that Gilespie was a former student who had been tricked into smuggling drugs in handbags that he was t...

Australia-India virtual summit will be framed around much bigger issues than Australia’s immediate trade requirements, according to the federal trade and tourism Minster Simon Birmingham.

Australia's push for an investigation into the source of the COVID-19 virus has caused its relationship with China to plummet to new lows. With major trade tensions over beef and barley exports exposed, Trade Minister Simon Birmingham has revealed his Chinese counterpart won't return his calls. - ਕੋਵਿਡ-19 ਦੀ ਸ਼ੁਰੂਆਤ ਦਾ ਪਤਾ ਲਗਾਉਣ ਲਈ ਪਾਏ ਜਾਣ ਵਾਲੇ ਦਬਾਵਾਂ ਕਾਰਨ ਆਸਟ੍ਰੇਲੀਆ ਅਤੇ ਚੀਨ ਦੇ ਸਬੰਧ ਕਾਫੀ ਜਿਆਦਾ ਵਿਗੜ ਗਏ ਹਨ। ਗਾਂ ਦੇ ਮਾਸ ਅਤੇ ਜੌਂ ਦੀ ਬਰਾਮਦ ਤੋਂ ਪੈਦਾ ਹੋਏ ਵਪਾਰਕ ਤਣਾਵਾਂ ਤੋਂ ਬਾਅਦ ਵਪਾਰ ਮੰਤਰੀ ਨੇ ਖੁਲਾਸਾ ਕੀਤਾ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਉਹਨਾਂ ਦੇ ਚੀਨੀ ਹਮਰੁਤਬਾ ਨੇ ਤਾਂ ਹੁਣ ਉਹਨਾਂ ਦੇ ਫੋਨ ਦਾ ਜਵਾਬ ਦੇਣਾ ਵੀ ਬੰਦ ਕਰ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਹੈ।

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