{"id":25715,"date":"2020-12-15T12:04:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T03:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/15\/scott-morrison-lashes-china-over-reported-ban-on-australian-coal-imports"},"modified":"2020-12-15T12:04:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T03:04:57","slug":"scott-morrison-lashes-china-over-reported-ban-on-australian-coal-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25715","title":{"rendered":"Scott Morrison lashes China over reported ban on Australian coal imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister says if the Chinese state media reports are correct the ban would be a breach of WTO rules<\/p>\n<p>Scott Morrison has accused China of breaching international trade rules and its agreement with Australia through its reported ban on Australian coal imports.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the prime minister and the trade minister, Simon Birmingham, responded to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/dec\/14\/china-formalises-cut-to-australias-coal-imports-state-media-reports\">a report in the Global Times<\/a> confirming that China was restricting imports of coal only from Australia and prioritising imports from Mongolia, Indonesia and Russia. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/15\/scott-morrison-lashes-china-over-reported-ban-on-australian-coal-imports\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister says if the Chinese state media reports are correct the ban would be a breach of WTO rulesScott Morrison has accused China of breaching international trade rules and its agreement with Australia through its reported ban on Australian coa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1753,"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":[43,50,589,534,557,386,1463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-china","category-coal","category-coalition","category-international-trade","category-scott-morrison","category-simon-birmingham"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25715","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\/1753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25716,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25715\/revisions\/25716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}