Australian beef has replaced U.S. supply in China since Donald Trump returned to the White House, funnelling hundreds of millions of dollars that have in previous years gone to the U.S. cattle industry into Australian pockets.
U.S. shipments to China, worth around $120 million a month, collapsed after Beijing in March allowed permits to expire at hundreds of American meat facilities and as Trump unleashed a tit-for-tat tariff war.
Other U.S. farm exports to China, the world’s biggest food importer, have also suffered since Trump retook power. On soybeans alone, U.S. farmers have lost out on shipments worth billions of dollars during the current harvest season.
The previous, idiotic conservative government of Australia did a lot of harm to the relationship between China and Australia. For some reason they wanted to suck up to 'Murican conservatives by pissing of China pointlessly
Albo and his team have worked wonders, and it’s fantastic to see Australia benefit from American stupidity
It’s going to take a LOT to undo the damage that Trump has done, and is continuing to do
The best thing Australia could do is to abandon both America and China as major trade partners. Both countries have shown they are unreliable and will use their market power as a weapon.
I don’t think it will ever be fully undone. The willingness of the American people to put near-dictatorial power in the hands of one man is not something that our allies and trading partners are ever going to forget. (Not to mention that one man is very clearly suffering from dementia.)
It was a good 80-year run, but Donald and this Congress have irrevocably tarnished the American brand by allowing lawlessness and madness to rule unfettered.
Oh, I’m talking about an entire generation, it’s going to be at least a couple of decades.
That’s if the US doesn’t really fall apart and become a pariah state for a very long time
America’s pre-Trump position was due to them being the only major power left standing after World War II. After the rest of the world rebuilt, it maintained its dominant position mostly through inertia. The damage Trump is doing will never be undone, because the status quo that he’s destroying didn’t come about naturally; they were the result of very specific circumstances that aren’t going to repeat (I mean, a global war might, but not one that leaves the United States unscathed.)