After three years, all but one of half a dozen exports caught up in $20 billion in trade strikes by the Chinese government have been given an official reprieve.
First, there was coal, then there was barley. On Sunday, wine became the latest Australian export to be given a reprieve by Beijing. Now only lobsters remain on the tarmac.
Since China lifted restrictions on Australian coal imports in March, negotiations have moved rapidly. Not only are most trade sanctions in the process of being lifted, but Australian journalist Cheng Lei has been released from jail. The relationship can never be fully stabilised until one more Australian, Yang Hengjun,But it is difficult to reconcile with the years of frozen ministerial contact and daily barbs from the Chinese Foreign Ministry without getting whiplash.
COVID-19 has subsided, eliminating what was once a major flashpoint, and the change in government in Australia created a natural break for a rhetorical reset. It culminated in Wong’s Australian formula of “co-operate where we can, disagree where we must, and engage in our national interest”, which has guided almost all Australian policymaking on China since.
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