Australia is Fijis largest trade partner and biggest source market for the tourism industry.
Australia is on the hostile radar of the Chinese due to its foreign affairs policies, which leaned towards American interests.
This is not in line to its economic interests.
China is Australia’s largest economic trade partner.
China now has access to iron ore deposits in Russia, which shares a land border with.
China does not need to transport iron ores by boat from Australia in the near too distant future once robust infrastructures are built over the Amur River.
In the meantime, the Chinese government will start to impose high tariffs on Australian imports to discourage Chinese companies from buying Australian.
This is to await the further development of infrastructural links such as railway lines, new vehicle bridges between Russia and China.
Once Chinese companies see that it is not economically feasible to buy natural resources from Australia, they will go to a cheap source market, which is to their northern land border, their new Russian friends.
Well, the Australian economy will take a hit once the Chinese start to implement actions against products from ‘Down Under’.
Hopefully, these grand power geostrategic games will not negatively affect Fiji in a huge way, especially the Fijian tourism industry.
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