China-Australia relations: Canberra denies ‘playing the victim’ in trade dispute with Beijing

• Australian Trade Minister Dan Tehan was responding to an editorial in the Global Times that accused him of appearing ‘to be pulling another publicity stunt’
• Preliminary data last week showed that Australia’s total goods exported to China reached A$145.2 billion (US$110.9 billion) in 2020, just 2.16 per cent less than in 2019