Prime Minister Scott Morrison will outline a plan on how to counter “economic coercion” from global actors such as China.
Scott Morrison has the World Trade Organisation’s appellate body in his sights as he heads to the G7 summit in Cornwall in the UK via Perth and Singapore.
The Prime Minister will use his invitation as a guest to the G7 meeting to call for democracies to band together to prevent ‘economic coercion’. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Joel Carrett“A well-functioning WTO that sets clear rules, arbitrates disputes objectively and efficiently and penalises bad behaviour when it occurs.
Mr Morrison said the “strategic competition” between the US and China “threatens global and regional stability” as well as the “liberal, rules-based order that has benefited us for so long”.
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