SYDNEY (AFP): Australia's economy minister called on China Wednesday (May 25) to drop punishing trade tariffs if it wants to thaw frozen relations, after Beijing sent a message signalling it is ready to improve ties.
China -- Australia's biggest trading partner -- imposed tariffs and disrupted more than a dozen key industries, including wine, barley and coal, as relations deteriorated sharply in the past two years.
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