Commentary
Dictatorships don’t make concessions unless they are forced to do so. They don’t make concessions as a unilateral goodwill gesture. Their concessions are only ever made out of self-interest.
Therefore one can safely assume that the lifting of the ban on Australian timber exports to China, which was so spuriously imposed by the communist dictatorship on “quarantine” grounds, is fully enveloped in self-interest.
Australia has high quality timber products. China was only importing the product for one reason, it was needed. Today they still need the product.
The ban, without doubt, had consequences for China but was done as part of the belligerent dictatorship’s response to the not-unreasonable request by Australia that there be an international inquiry into the origins of COVID….