All a question of diplomacy

Updated July 2 2021 - 3:01am, first published June 2 2020 - 2:26pm
PUNISHMENT: The meat processing plant suspensions seem notable for disproportionate sanction over what appears to be minor administrative shortcomings.
PUNISHMENT: The meat processing plant suspensions seem notable for disproportionate sanction over what appears to be minor administrative shortcomings.

AFTER China's imposition of a crippling 80 per cent tariff on Australian barley and suspension of imports from four major Australian meat processing plants, there has been open but inconclusive conjecture over the real reasons behind the moves.

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