How China uses trade as a weapon I FT

Beijing's aggressive attitude towards Australia shows how China uses trade and investment as tools to punish countries who challenge it. FT global China editor James Kynge and Australia correspondent Jamie Smyth look at the impact on Australia and what China's assertiveness tells us about its increasingly assertive foreign policy

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[Mesozoic_mammal]

'Trade wars are good, and easy to win'
45th president of the United States

[zackbourne]

USA is the champion in using trade as a weapon and Australia is one of the watchdogs of USA. And both of them know this fact.

[EuDouArteHipHopArtCulture]

Please do one about how the US uses trade as an weapon .

[furryrupert]

China's trade sanctions on Australian merely China taking a page from the US playbook of imposing trade sanctions on other countries that don't support their agenda. In this case the student ( China ) is equally as good as the master ( the US ) in playing the trade sanctions game.

[zero-point]

The title of this video should be "How the USA uses the dollar as a weapon".

[edwingan]

It's called trade sanctions. America & the West have plenty of experience sanctioning other countries, but very little experience being on the receiving end.

[parkchan]

Australia: I can humiliate you, but you must do business with me at the same time.

[maritzasalazar]

Next... How US uses The Dollar as a weapon.

[fiddlesticks]

The United States is China’s teacher on the issue of "how to use trade as a weapon"

[zhuqiusong]

Usa uses trade as war, UK does too, EU as well... But only China isn't allowed to?! 😂😂 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳 中国加油！

[CondenseFact]

It's not a trade weapon when people stop buying from you, that's just a choice. What IS a trade weapon is when people STOP OTHERS buying from you and STOP OTHERS from selling things to you.

[peteryoung]

Please the Australians dug their own grave. Any country that pulls the stunt Australia did to China will experience the same problem. It's like walking into a restaurant and calling the owner of the restaurant a thief, do you then expect good customer service? If you think so try it!

[shivendrapatel]

Biased only Australian view.
Save time..

[yizhang]

China is just a pupil compared with the us in leveraging the trade. by the way, what about Huawei and ZTEwhich are still banned by Australia.

[ruggeddiscipline]

Why don't the usa just print sum money and give it to Australia

[eclhome]

China: My money, I will spend it the way I want. No one dictates to me where or how I spend it.

[arbsry]

My boss and big brother started the trade war and now I accuse you for using trade as a weapon—— nice try！

[GlumoTV]

the West finally learning how it feels when sanctions are used against them

[reasonrusfromme]

Australia banned Huawei’s 5G with no real reasons. Trade is mutual. Australia has no moral high ground to criticize China’s human rights record given what its troops did in Afganistan and how it treated its own aborigines and migrants. No country is perfect. Australia needs to look at itself in the mirror before criticizing other countries.

[doccore]

I remember learning "world" history in Form 3 in colonial Hong Kong, says the opium war(s) was a *trade* war. That was a much more educational lesson than the Brits intended.