Posted on 05/19/2020 10:43:38 PM PDT by naturalman1975
China has reportedly drawn up a list of more Australian industries to target after slapping tariffs on barley and banning some beef imports amid mounting tensions over calls for a coronavirus inquiry.
Wine, dairy, seafood, oatmeal and fruit exporters could be hit with new customs rules, quality checks or tariffs to make selling into China more difficult, according to a Bloomberg article which cited 'people familiar with the matter'.
Each year Australian companies export about $1billion worth of dairy, $1.3billion of wine and $658million of seafood to China, meaning further tariffs could seriously harm the economy.
Meanwhile, Chinese newspaper the Global Times, which is considered a mouthpiece for the communist government, today stoked tensions by quoting Chinese citizens who called Australia 'a giant kangaroo that serves as a dog of the US'.
In response to the jibe, Senator Kimberley Kitching said politicians on both sides would continue to stand up for Australian values.
'It's no insult to be called a kangaroo - they are tough, hard to tame, resourceful, never take a backwards step and of course are very committed to freedom,' she told Daily Mail Australia.
The Global Times article ran comments from social media users accusing Australia of pandering to the US by calling for an inquiry into the virus after President Trump investigated whether it spawned in a lab in Wuhan.
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Huh, if the Chinese consider Australia the “dog of America,” do they think we eat Aussies??
China is acting like a cornered wounded animal...lashing out blindly at everything and everybody.
She’s going down
Sell your seafood to US. (As long as it doesn’t hurt OUR seafood industry). I refuse to buy that Chinese crap!
Well how would it not hurt our seafood industry? Wow
Then do this, form a pac with America, Canada, Mexico, UK Italy and France. All trade stops! We dont import from you, we dont sell to you! Layoff half of China. Who the hell wants to trade with them anyways! It will hurt until we get in house production back online, but hell lets just drop the tarriffs and just trade with each other. Bye bye Walmart, but aint like they offer anything of quality anyways.
Ever argue with someone and you made a point that was wrong, and they had factual proof that they were right?
Did they throw a tantrum and start trying to intimidate you, calling you stupid names, insulting you and threatening to ruin you financially?
Or did they just calmly prove your mistake?
Meanwhile, Chinese newspaper the Global Times, which is considered a mouthpiece for the communist government, today stoked tensions by quoting Chinese citizens who called Australia a dog faced pony soldier, and a capitalist running
dog! While bowing deeply and being totally effusive.
This is in retaliation for Australia’s push to investigate the origin of Covid 19.
I can’t wait to watch the Chinese economy implode. China is like a meth head trailer park where everyone won the lottery.
Time to take out the trash.
We are now at an historical fork in the road. Pick one, Australia. Pick one, America. Pick one, the rest of the world.
Option A. Tell Red China to go to hell. Enough is enough.
Option B. Ignore the huge damage the ChiCom virus has done. Continue to kiss Chinese ass. That way you can keep selling them your agriculture products. And you can keep buying their cheap manufactured garbage.
Side note:
Thank goodness Donald Trump is president. We have at least a chance at Option A. If it were anyone else (Hillary, Jeb Bush, etc.) we’d already be far down the road of Option B.
Diversify our ag and mineral exports and give the commie Chinese the finger. We don’t need a single damn thing they offer in return.
Ditch the WTO, and bring on the Anglosphere trading bloc. Start with the Commonwealth of Nations (or at least the Commonwealth Realm), and add on the USA. Oh, and send us all the Shiraz that used to go to China.
Calling “Crocodile Dundee”. You are wanted on the Continent for a cleanup job.
Lol are some of you too young to know the Chinese always referred to our allies as “running dogs”.
China is the real inspiration for the globalist movement and the only large country that gets a free pass from them. They pollute the Pacific Ocean (along with other Asian countries) on a massive scale. Yet they feel free to lecture other countries as if they had some actual accomplishments aside from terrifying their own population into silence and compliance. As much as I admire Trump, I wish there were an American president willing to go in there and wipe out that government at whatever cost, to rid the earth of it once and for all. They are arrogant swine and that’s being kind.
STARVE China. Let them eat iPhones.
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