Australia rebuffs China’s appeal to ‘join hands’ in trade ...Middle East

Ambassador Xiao Qian urged Australia and other trading partners to “jointly respond to the changes of the world” in an opinion piece written for a Sydney newspaper.

But Australia’s defence minister Richard Marles was quick to pour cold water on notions of Canberra and Beijing uniting in “common cause”.

“I don’t think we’ll be holding China’s hand.

Australia is one of the United States’ most steadfast security allies in a region coming to grips with China’s rising military, economic and diplomatic might.

Australia has been slugged with a blanket 10 percent tariff on goods exported to the United States, despite some lawmakers questioning why Washington would seek to punish a friend.

Trump said he was raising tariffs on China to 125 percent because of a “lack of respect”.

US levies on Australia were also unchanged.

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