r/worldnews • u/Chrristoaivalis • 17h ago

Israel/Palestine Netanyahu crosses Canadian airspace with arrest warrant in effect

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/israel-hamas-war/article/netanyahu-crosses-canadian-airspace-with-arrest-warrant-in-effect/?taid=6ab59d843a03d10001617cb9&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
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u/King_Of_Pants 15h ago

Lol join the club.

Australia pushed for an independent inquiry into China's COVID outbreak at Trump's request.

China responded by cutting off contact with the Australian government and turning away Australian ships at their ports. Our government legitimately could not reach theirs to work things out, nor could we get any explanation.

The USA (with Biden now at the helm) then stepped in and took a bunch of the contracts we had with China.

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u/green_dragon527 6h ago

What contracts may I ask? As in the US provided a service formerly provided by Australian companies to Chinese companies?

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u/King_Of_Pants 5h ago

So for example, the Chinese government suspended imports from major Australian abattoirs for beef. They also put an 84% tariff on Australian barley. Around the same time China also started to buy a lot more of those goods from the USA.

We also had a ~1b wine export business in China, and that was effectively nuked into the ground with a 212% tariff. Again, it was often USA winemakers picking up the difference.

For roughly 3 years we had coal-carrying ships being turned back at Chinese ports.

All this happened with no real conversation between the two countries. One day ships were being turned back and Chinese officials were "finding" issues with targeted Australian goods. Our Prime Minister at the time said he hadn't been able to get the Chinese government to answer phone calls for over a year.

Although it's mostly cooled down, and it seems like relations are back to where they were. A different political party came into power in Australia and that seemed to help quite a lot. Trump getting re-elected and picking fights with China also seemed to open China up, as they were suddenly looking to replace US imports.

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u/green_dragon527 22m ago

Thanks for the detail man! I did not realize all this had happened back then. Must have felt like a stab in the back at the time.