Beijing Uses Trade to ‘Manipulate Public Debate’: Liberal Senator Claire Chandler

Published on April 4, 2024

Australia needs to be “very clear-eyed” about Beijing’s strategy of using economic incentives to “manipulate public debate” and divert international attention from its military aggression, a Liberal senator has warned. The warning follows the conclusion of the three-year trade freeze between China and Australia, culminating in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) scrapping one of its final trade restrictions, Australia’s wine export tariffs, in late March. The punitive tariffs were imposed as part of Beijing’s retaliation campaign against Australia after former Prime Minister Scott Morrison called for an independent investigation into the origin of COVID-19. The Labor government, on the contrary, has been more lenient in its rhetoric in an attempt to improve trade relations with China....

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