China might well refuse to take our barley, and there would be little we could do
- Written by Weihuan Zhou, Senior Lecturer and member of Herbert Smith Freehills CIBEL Centre, Faculty of Law, UNSW Sydney, UNSW

Australia’s surprising call for an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus in China has provoked escalating threats of retaliation by China.
China started with a warning that Australia’s position might spark a Chinese consumer boycott.
It’s now threatening tariffs on Australian barley that would include a...