With 1.4 billion people, China is the world’s most populated country.
This makes China’s communist rulers hugely powerful, with the ability to influence and punish other nations for perceived slights by slapping trade bans, tariffs and other obstacles on imports coming into the country.
Australia has been on the receiving end of such treatment over the past few years, but is not alone.
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