A New Piece of Equipment in Zambia Will “Help China Get Rid of Its Over-Reliance of Imported Australian Iron Ores”

An article in today’s Global Times newspaper, one of China’s more bombastic nationalist tabloids, provides a glimpse into how determined Chinese officials are to “decouple” their trade with Australia, especially in the hugely valuable iron sector.

Sino-Australian relations deteriorated sharply in 2020 over disputes related to the origin of COVID-19, the South China Sea, and Huawei. Now, Beijing appears determined to use Australia’s dependence on the Chinese market as a weapon to retaliate against Canberra for what it sees are malign attacks.

To that end, a Chinese team in Zambia installed the NEUH-60, a piece of equipment that will reportedly enhance Zambian iron ore to a similar level of quality as Australian ore.

It’s clear from the quotes used in the Global Times story that the researchers involved in the project are clear about the objective: “Now China is enhancing the development of African iron mines, when the necessary bedrock infrastructure is finished including highways and railways for transportation, it is possible for China to shake off its over-reliance for Australian iron ore,” Wang Guoqing, research director at the Beijing Lange Steel Information Research Center.

Read the full article on the Global Times website.

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