Ex-Australian PM Morrison to address China's ‘economic coercion' at US House panel hearing
Scott Morrison will testify at a
US House panel hearing on Wednesday about countering
China 's 'economic coercion against democracies,' the committee said on Friday.
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Former US ambassador to
Japan Rahm Emanuel will also testify before the House Select Committee on China.
Relations with China , already rocky after Australia banned Huawei from its 5G broadband network in 2018, cooled further after Canberra called for an independent investigation into the origins of Covid-19
China responded by imposing tariffs on Australian commodities, including wine and barley, and limited imports of Australian beef, coal and grapes, moves described by the United States as 'economic coercion.'
Morrison was defeated in a bid for re-election in 2022.
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