According to Reuters, Australia's recent five-year free trade negotiations with the European Union have collapsed, Australia hopes that the EU will cancel tariffs, expand quotas, and promote the export of Australian agricultural products to Europe, but the EU has not made concessions, causing Australia to be annoyed and angry, saying that it will not talk about it, and it may be difficult to reach an agreement in the next few years.
What makes Australia's face even more hot is that in June this year, Australian Trade Minister Farrell also used China as a bargaining chip to threaten the EU, claiming that Australia-China relations are thawing, and Australia is now not short of "dance partners", so as to make the EU make a compromise in the free trade negotiations with Australia.
But the final result we have now also seen that the EU does not eat Australia, which is not to say that the EU does not think that China is a threat, but that Australia is unreliable, and the cruel words said today may be forgotten after a while.
Why does Australia want a free trade deal with the EU? I also talked with the EU for 5 years, and that was also because in 2018, when Australia was under the leadership of the Morrison government, Australia showed a tough anti-China policy towards China and wanted to suspend trade with China for a while.
But China's market is no joke, and it is not too far from Australia, arguably Australia's best partner, and if Australia wants to get rid of its dependence on China's huge market, it can only look at the European Union, which is composed of more than 20 member states, and look at the EU market.
It's just that the relationship between Australia and the EU is destined to not be "sweet for too long", for example, the tariffs mentioned by Australia this time are called to be canceled by the EU, which in the eyes of the EU, itself is what you come to ask me for, and you still make demands on me, which is simply unreasonable.
To sum it up in the simplest sentence, Australia originally wanted to use the EU to deal with China, and now Australia wants to use China to deal with the EU.
In general, in this kind of country, his determination is the least firm, and what is the most important reason? In this regard, the European Union is deeply aware of it, and it is also tortured by the United States, and Australia is also a country that runs behind the ass of the United States all day long, so Australia is trying to use China as a bargaining chip to threaten them, and the European Union naturally does not accept this, because after a few days the United States will say a word, Australia itself will take the initiative to keep a distance from China.
Strictly speaking, affected by factors such as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the EU's own situation is not very good, but he still rejected Australia, which actually reminds China that Australia is really unreliable, and the EU is not worried that Australia will fall to China, so we must be more vigilant about Australia.
In particular, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will also visit China recently, and we can also take a concrete look at this person's performance, how true or false his words and promises to China are.