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.. the ongoing trade debacle between Australia and China highlights the cultural divide in developing relationships .. AVZ is far better off looking to more culturally familiar shores IMHO .. that said, Megaphone Morrison, Feeble Frydenberg and Bumbling Birmingham need a lesson on diplomacy without the media .. maybe a course in Asian Relationships 101 that has a unit on 'Loss of Face is a Real Thing in Asia' .. honestly, these clowns have broken every diplomacy rule on the 'Building Relationships in Asia' Handbook .. who is advising these incompetents???

How do you "Build Relationships" with people who won't even pick up the phone

Scomo's Mob have every right to be pissed off atm, Especially when you're constantly hassled to comment on the rising tensions by local media after they post say shit like this about us, i would be as well, Good on em' for sticking up for our Defence Force / Country, I'd be even more pissed off if they didn't tbo and i don't even Vote Liberal, as

China's patriotic media has again increased the vitriol aimed at Australia with an English-language editorial claiming that Beijing's "goodwill" was "futile" when dealing with an "evil" country.

The Global Times editorial claims that Prime Minister Scott Morrison "lost his manners" when he criticised the tweet of a Chinese foreign ministry figure for using a concocted image to take a swipe at Australia over its handling of the Afghanistan war crimes investigation.

Showing little sign of lowering the temperature on the diplomatic language between China and Australia, the editorial describes Australia as a "warhound" of the US, and says the country "treats China's goodwill with evil."

A second article in the publication accuses Australia of staging a "'juvenile' political stunt" by "accusing China for violence by Australia's own soldiers in Afghanistan sic".

It comes a day after Morrison said he was seeking an apology from the Chinese government after Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry, posted the graphic image that shows a grinning soldier holding a bloodied knife to the throat of a veiled child, who is holding a lamb.


To remind,

China's patriotic media continues tirade against Australia

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Australian coal exports face 'perfect storm' as China restrictions hit

Australian coal exports face a GFC-style threat to their viability, one of the country's top insolvency experts will claim as Chinese import restrictions, reduced demand and funding for renewables wipes out key markets.

McGrathNicol’s chairman Jason Preston will on Tuesday say the escalation of China’s trade restrictions completes "a perfect storm" for coal exporters, as dozens of ships carrying up to $700 million worth of coal remain stranded off the Chinese coast unable to unload their cargo.

"It comes on top of COVID dampening coal demand, fiscal stimulus policies being directed to competing renewable energy and environmental, social, and corporate governance policies causing investors to reduce their exposure to carbon," he said.

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