China’s Feud With Australia Sours the Trade Mood on Both Sides

When Chinese diplomat Wang Xining sat down to his lunch in Canberra last week before addressing reporters about his nation’s increasingly sour relationship with Australia, he could be forgiven if his appetite also started to spoil.

On the set menu were Australian products that China has targeted since Prime Minister Scott Morrison raised Beijing’s ire in April by calling for independent investigators to be allowed into Wuhan to probe the origins of the coronavirus.