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Megan Ophel Security, Australia Chinese tariffs on Australian wine show how far Beijing will go to coerce a democracy over a political dispute. What do tariffs on Australian wine have to do with global democracy? For the Joe Biden administration , they represent an emerging challenge as China’s far-reaching economic coercion can threaten civil society and democratic values. China has relied upon economic measures in a nearly year-long dispute with Australia, but the core of the issue between the two countries is not economic but political—it is whether China can leverage its economic heft to impose its will upon, and...
