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2020-05-10 Down Under

China fires another shot in diplomatic war of words: Beijing threatens to impose an EIGHTY per cent import tax on Australian produce as relations between the nations continue to sour

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Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-10 07:50|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
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#1 Chine has excess supply of food?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-10 09:22|| 2020-05-10 09:22|| Front Page Top

#2 This can work out well. I've always thought that the US had a severe lamb shortage. Mary from Oz, bring your little lamb.

Posted by Mercutio 2020-05-10 09:37|| 2020-05-10 09:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, they don't need Australian lambs - they've meat on the wing.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-10 09:42|| 2020-05-10 09:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Great. Taxes/tariffs. A sure-fire way to screw things up for Chinese consumers and Australian producers. Nobody wins.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-10 09:50|| 2020-05-10 09:50|| Front Page Top

#5 The US isn't a big consumer of lamb/mutton, but if Australia ran an ad campaign emphasizing that buying their lamb we'd be supporting an old friend against China, I think that could change.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-05-10 10:22|| 2020-05-10 10:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Why China's threat to the Australian economy was a GOOD thing: Former bureaucrat says menacing message highlights bullying tactics

What's the name of this guy (Lord something) who burned the winter palace?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-10 10:26|| 2020-05-10 10:26|| Front Page Top

#7 As I understand, with a couple exceptions, that if you want beef in Asia, it is Australian, or it is Something Else.

Great messaging - come back to China, Wet Markets are open! But if you want not-Chinese food, you will pay twice what you did before.

f'em.

And nothing wrong with lamb.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-05-10 12:05|| 2020-05-10 12:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Countries other than China are not going to take kindly to threats from the ChiComs. This will end badly for China, the people and the CCP.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-05-10 13:00|| 2020-05-10 13:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Lamb's really expensive. Love it but not sure there's any realistic way to significantly increase lamb production

Posted by Lex 2020-05-10 14:20|| 2020-05-10 14:20|| Front Page Top

#10 Does this mean the CCP has a Sheep Corona-virus it's getting ready to ship to Oz?

Posted by 3dc 2020-05-10 17:48|| 2020-05-10 17:48|| Front Page Top

#11 This is on barley, probably malting barley, which means beer.

Posted by Grunter 2020-05-10 21:01|| 2020-05-10 21:01|| Front Page Top

#12 If only there was a big economy country with a booming craft beer industry to take this high quality product off our hands...

Posted by Grunter 2020-05-10 21:04|| 2020-05-10 21:04|| Front Page Top

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