{"id":382156,"date":"2020-11-04T08:40:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T03:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=382156"},"modified":"2020-11-04T08:57:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T03:27:10","slug":"china-looks-to-punish-australia-lobsters-wine-and-coal-become-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-looks-to-punish-australia-lobsters-wine-and-coal-become-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"China looks to &#8216;punish&#8217; Australia: Lobsters, wine and coal become targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What started as a political spat between Beijing and Canberra has become a one-sided trade war that threatens serious disruption for an expanding number of Australian exporters. <\/p>\n<p>China won\u2019t allow imports of a swathe of Australian commodities and foodstuffs from as early as this week, according to people familiar with the matter. The curbs are a major escalation in Beijing\u2019s pressure campaign following a two-year stand-off over issues from technology to the origins of coronavirus. <\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s blacklist &#8212; delivered verbally to commodities traders &#8212; includes coal, barley, copper, sugar, timber, wine and lobster. It doesn\u2019t cover materials, like iron ore or natural gas, where import curbs could unduly damage China\u2019s own economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What started as a political spat between Beijing and Canberra has become a one-sided trade war that threatens serious disruption for an expanding number of Australian exporters. China won\u2019t allow imports of a swathe of Australian commodities and foodstuffs from as early as this week, according to people familiar with the matter. The curbs are a major escalation in Beijing\u2019s pressure campaign following a two-year stand-off over issues from technology to the origins of coronavirus. China\u2019s blacklist &#8212; delivered verbally to commodities traders &#8212; includes coal, barley, copper, sugar, timber, wine and lobster. It doesn\u2019t cover materials, like iron ore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}