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December 17, 2020 â 11.08pm
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Handle dispute without inflaming the situation
Our government has decided to poke the Chinese dragon with a number of sticks, including blocking $14billion of foreign investment, some of which had been approved by the Foreign Investment Review Board, launching anti-dumping investigations and blocking Huawei from our 5G market. There has been criticism of Chinaâs human rights record and an independent inquiry on the origin of the coronavirus has been called for. The dragon is not happy and punitive measures are being applied, including restrictions on trade that will have a devastati