Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Beijing will lift its trade ban on Australia as it looks for a way out of the failure of its trade sanctions.
The 29th Australian prime minister was speaking at an online forum on “Responses to China’s Economic Coercion” hosted by the Alliance of Democracies Foundation on Feb. 6.
Australia-China relations hit a low point in May 2020 when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) retaliated against tens of billions of dollars worth of Australian exports, including coal, lobster, barley, and wine. Ministerial contacts were also severed by the CCP after the former Morrison administration called for an independent investigation into the origin of COVID-19….