Beijing’s Requests for Help With Trade Pact Application Ignored by Australia

Beijing’s Requests for Help With Trade Pact Application Ignored by Australia
A truck passes by China Shipping containers at the Port of Los Angeles, in Long Beach, Calif. on Sept. 1, 2019. Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images
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The Australian government has refused to respond to Beijing’s “repeated” requests to begin negotiations to join one of the world’s most extensive free-trade agreements.

This is despite suggestions from Beijing that the current frosty relations between the two countries would improve if Australia backed its admission to the bloc.

Victoria Kelly-Clark
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Victoria Kelly-Clark is an Australian based reporter who focuses on national politics and the geopolitical environment in the Asia-pacific region, the Middle East and Central Asia.
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