Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, center, and Australia's now-former foreign minister Julie Bishop, right, talk as they arrive for a joint press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016. Wu Hong/Pool Photo via AP
Business Insider: Australia's former foreign minister let slip how casually easy it is for China to tell another country what to do
* A proposed trade deal between Australia and Taiwan apparently never had a chance to see the light of day, former foreign minister Julie Bishop says.
* Bishop blamed what she said was direct and constant pressure from Beijing.
* That startling concession shines light on a sobering truth: China is comfortable exerting pressure at the very highest corridors of power in order to secure its interests.
Australia's former foreign minister Julia Bishop says direct and consistent pressure from Beijing effectively skewered any chance Canberra had of even striking up a conversation with Taiwan on a free trade deal.
The startling concession highlights how Beijing is apparently comfortable exerting pressures at the very highest corridors of power to secure its interests.
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WNU Editor: Two words sums it up .... "economic pressure".
6 comments:
This is why the Trump policy of Tariffs is a good thing. We allowed China to get too powerful and they have used it wisely to their advantage. This is the most important global issue of our time right now.
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China’s belt and road initiative is coming to an end for this exact reason. BRI is basically debt diplomacy. Economic slavery.
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Great. Now maybe she can explain why it is so easy for the UN to tell Australia what to do.
I guess anon 10:43 wants the US to have trade deficits forever,
That is not possible. So the country goes bankrupt or we renegotiate the trade deals.
Trump wisely is choosing the latter option.
China is resisting, because it does not want to give up the sweetheart deal that it is cheating on.
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