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James Laurenceson

How the WTO helped Australia repair its trade ties with China

Australia’s resistance to Chinese coercion helped win the trade war, but the international trade organisation’s role should not be underplayed.

When Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visits China this week, he’ll be able to celebrate a figure that his predecessors could only dream of. Over the past year, China has imported more than $200 billion worth of goods and services from Australia.

The last time an Australian prime minister visited China, the figure was less than half that, at $95.6 billion.

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James Laurenceson is Director of the Australia–China Relations Institute (ACRI) at the University of Technology Sydney.

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