{"id":20960,"date":"2020-07-25T08:58:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T23:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/25\/australian-farmers-call-for-separation-between-foreign-relations-and-trade-ties-with-china"},"modified":"2020-07-25T08:58:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T23:58:07","slug":"australian-farmers-call-for-separation-between-foreign-relations-and-trade-ties-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20960","title":{"rendered":"Australian farmers call for separation between foreign relations and trade ties with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elders chief says Australia\u2019s trade with China is being used as a \u2018weapon for foreign affairs\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Agricultural business leaders concerned about the impact rising tensions with China will have on exports are hoping to explore a \u201cseparation of powers\u201d between Australia\u2019s foreign relations and trade ties with China.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Allison, the chief executive of agribusiness giant Elders, is among those concerned, lamenting that trade is used as a \u201cweapon for foreign affairs\u201d and that strong links between Chinese and Australian companies should be able to flourish despite future hostilities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/25\/australian-farmers-call-for-separation-between-foreign-relations-and-trade-ties-with-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elders chief says Australia\u2019s trade with China is being used as a \u2018weapon for foreign affairs\u2019Agricultural business leaders concerned about the impact rising tensions with China will have on exports are hoping to explore a \u201cseparation of powers\u201d betwee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1472,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,6,50,557,1429],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-business","category-china","category-international-trade","category-rural-australia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1472"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20961,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20960\/revisions\/20961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}