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‘We made mistakes’ in our treatment of China, admitted former Australian trade minister Andrew Robb. ‘We tended to rub their nose in it. It was not the smartest thing to do,’ Robb told CGTN as both countries look to strengthen economic ties following Wang Yi’s visit to Canberra.

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00:00 we are always going to have political differences.
00:03 It's just how you handle those differences that is critical.
00:07 And I think we made some mistakes in terms of the way in which we handled
00:13 the introduction of a lot of security measures,
00:15 a very important security measures for Australia and our allies.
00:19 Our allies didn't get trade sanctions and yet they put in all the same security measures that we had.
00:26 So in fact, they took advantage, they encouraged us to keep, you know, aggressively
00:32 our rhetoric with China, to keep that up.
00:36 But at the same time, as the sanctions came in, all of our allies,
00:41 especially the United States, took all our markets.
00:44 So it was, you know, it was not the smartest thing
00:50 to rub the nose of our biggest trading partner.
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