Australia’s world-renown cherry producers have been attacked by Beijing, becoming the latest industry to be get caught in the cross hairs of China. The authoritarian state also said it would not allow nearly eight million tonnes of Australian coal floating on 73 ships to be unloaded. Sailors on the ships have been stranded on the boats for months in horrendous conditions months after being held up with arbitrary unofficial bans. Beijing has targeted billions of dollars worth of Australian exports – including barely, wine, beef, seafood, copper, cotton and timber in the past year. The sanctions are to punish Canberra calling for an independent inquiry into the Chinese Communist Party’s handling of the coronavirus crisis back in April. Scott Morrison (pictured right) and the Australian government are locked in bitter feud with Chinese President Xi Jinping (pictured left) and his Communist Party administration A newspaper controlled by the CCP featured an article slamming the ‘inferior’ taste of Australian cherries compared with other markets. ‘The share of Australian cherries in Chinese market… has dropped due to the inferior quality of the product given the reserved seasonality,’ fruit traders allegedly told the propaganda outlet Global Times. ‘The taste and quality of Australian cherries is… Read full this story
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