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(18 Aug 2020) China said on Tuesday it had started investigating whether Australia was dumping wine, in a trade dispute that further strains relations between the countries and could shut the biggest export market for Australian wine.
The decision has been linked to Australian calls for an independent investigation into the source of the coronavirus, as well as responses to the pandemic.
"This is a normal anti-dumping investigation," said Zhao Lijian, spokesperson of China's ministry of foreign affairs in Beijing.
The investigation of Australian wine exports, which made 1.1 billion Australian dollars (795 million US dollars) from the Chinese market last year, could take between a year and 18 months.
Australia has had a free-trade deal with China, its biggest export market, since 2015. Australia is regarded by some as the Western country most susceptible to Chinese economic pressure because of their close economic ties.
"A sound and stable China-Australia relationship is in the common interests of the two countries, but it requires the joint efforts of both sides," said Zhao at Tuesday's regular press conference.
Zhao also said China firmly opposes any forms of official exchanges between Taiwan and Somaliland, after the Taiwan opened a representative office in Somaliland, a self-declared East African state.
"The DPP authority is in a desperate situation and attempts to engage in separatist activities in the international arena, and they will never succeed," Zhao said.

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