Australia’s economy has seen solid growth in recent decades on the back of supplying the raw materials for China’s emergence as a modern economy.
SYDNEY: Australia on Tuesday decried China’s reported ban on its coal exports as an obvious breach of World Trade Organisation rules, as tensions between the two countries flared again.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the Chinese government had yet to confirm state media reports that Australia’s multi-billion-dollar coal exports are now subject to an informal ban.
Nationalist state-run tabloid the Global Times reported on Sunday that Chinese power plants are being steered toward buying their coal domestically, as well as from countries other than Australia.
“If that were the case, then that would obviously be in breach of WTO rules,” Morrison said. “It would…
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