Industry Leader Calls on Aussie Diplomats to ‘Step Up’ Amid CCP Economic Coercion

Industry Leader Calls on Aussie Diplomats to ‘Step Up’ Amid CCP Economic Coercion
Australian flag flutters in front of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on April 14, 2016. Jason Lee/Reuters
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A leading Australian industry advocate has called on politicians and diplomats to stand firm and not acquiesce to demands by Beijing amid its aggressive diplomatic tactics and economic coercion, saying Australia risks giving away fundamental values to pacify the communist regime.

Australian Industry Group CEO Innes Willox, in an op-ed in News Corp’s The Australian, said industry had watched the declining bilateral relationship between Australia and China for a decade with concern.

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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