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To China, on behalf of my country Australia: sorry Australian wine seen on a shop shelf in Shanghai on December 8. China imposed a fresh round of import duties on Australian wine starting December 11, after slapping anti-dumping tariffs of up to 212 per cent in late November, amid tensions since Canberra earlier this year called for an inquiry into the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo: EPA-EFE
Dear China,
As an Australian, I would like to apologise to you for the way we have treated you. We have called out drug cheats when we have our own drug cheats. We have criticised your human rights record when we have an appalling history of mistreating our indigenous people as well, and what we do to refugees is tantamount to torture ( Australia is in no position to criticise China on human rights abuses , December 15).
What led Japanese and Indonesians in Western Australia 100 years ago to spill blood in the Broome race riots Joseph Lam life@scmp.com Workers grade and sort mother-of-pearl shells at Broome, Western Australia, in 1953. The town, long a centre of the pearling industry, drew migrants from Japan and Southeast Asia, who several times came into conflict. Photo: Frank Hurley for National Library of Australia
The largest Japanese cemetery outside Japan is in a small seaside town in Western Australia, 2,000km (1,250 miles) and a 22-hour drive north of the state capital, Perth. Roughly 900 headstones line a lot on Port Drive in Broome, beside cemeteries for Chinese and other ethnicities.
China kept on US currency manipulator watch list amid sharp rise in US dollar-yuan exchange rate The Trump administration has kept China on its currency manipulator watch list. Photo: Bloomberg
The US Department of the Treasury has kept China on its watch list for foreign-exchange manipulation in its final report before the Trump administration leaves office.
Inclusion on the list is a step short of being named a currency manipulator, a designation the US rescinded as part of the phase one trade agreement signed in January. China promised not to manipulate the yuan s exchange rate for competitive advantage as part of the deal.
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Love killer: How the Covid-19 pandemic has left the world a more violent place for the LGBTQ community Inkstone 18/12/2020
In some countries, who you love can be deadly.
Same-sex activity is illegal in almost 70 countries. In six, it s punishable by death. These include Brunei, Iran, Mauritania, Nigeria (the 12 northern states only), Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
These were the findings of a world survey on sexual orientation laws released this week that found dozens of nations across the globe still treated same-sex couples as criminals.