China-Australia relations: Canberra’s plan to scrap research accord labelled ‘act of revenge’ over trade dispute Iron ore has yet to be dragged into the ongoing dispute between China and Australia. Photo: Reuters
China has called Australia s plan to scrap a research agreement between the Victorian government and Jiangsu province an act of revenge over trade disruption that is fast threatening Australia s economic growth.
As relations between the two countries continue to deteriorate, Australian press said earlier this week that Canberra was scrutinising the bilateral Victoria-Jiangsu Programme for Technology and Innovation Research and Development after it was identified as being potentially contrary to Australia s national interest.
Iron ore, a lever to pull Australia, China out of trade war 2 minutes read
By Rocío Otoya
Sydney, Australia, Dec 30 (efe-epa).- Iron ore is pushing Australia and China, the world’s largest exporter and importer of the raw material, to reach an understanding despite escalating trade tensions between the two countries.
Bilateral relations have strained throughout the year with several friction points, including import tariffs on several Australian products by China.
Barley, wine, beef, and coal are some products directly or indirectly affected by the trade war with China.
According to Australian experts, it is a retaliation against Canberra after it called for an international investigation into the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic, which first surfaced in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
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Despite COVID-19 restrictions and the risk of animal to human disease transmission, illegal wildlife trade on social media networks has continued, with wild animals sometimes sold as lockdown pets .
Having analysed around 20,000 Facebook posts about wild pet trade in a new paper, entited
Online trade in wildlife and the lack of response to COVID-19, researchers from Oxford Brookes University and the University of Western Australia are urging increased governance on social media sites in order to curb potential extinctions and reduce the risk of pandemics.
The role of wild animals in emerging infectious diseases (EID) is very much in the spotlight presently. Human-animal transmission has been documented in previous virus outbreaks such as SARS and MERS. Several of the early cases of COVID-19 were linked to a wet market in Wuhan, China, although there is, as yet, not enough evidence to conclude how the virus t
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Plumper bumblebees learn which flowers are filled with the most nectar and remember their locations to prioritise them in the future, a study has found.
It reveals bigger bees are better at cultivating a mental map of netar-laden flowers whereas smaller bees fail to take heed of varying sugar levels.
Bees are key pollinators and their quest for nectar, which they use as food and subsequently produce honey, is a never-ending task.
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Bigger bees are better at cultivating a mental map of netar-laden flowers whereas smaller bees fail to take heed of varying sugar levels, a study has found