Taking China to the WTO may not affect China's behaviour towards Aus, but considering the frequency with which China uses WTO rules to control the behaviour of others trading with China, having its non-compliance with the rules on display would at least be highly embarrassing and would weaken its trading positions with other countries.

China is feeling a backlash for the measures it has taken not least of which is a breakdown of trust and is likely to pay more for imports in the future as suppliers protect themselves and put other buyers ahead.

shadyminister,

CHINA DOESN'T GIVE A SH!T.

Get it! Savvy! Capisce!

Why do you keep apologising for China's actions? Other than that you belong in the pro-China camp or work for Huawei.

China is now expanding its nation-state territory to gobble up everything in its path and people like you keep kowtowing to it.

The only thing China fears most is forced containment that would thwart its annexational imperialist objectives.

Slow minded people like you still don't get it.

China "highly embarrassed". That's a good one! Some people still try to attribute the Chinese Communist Party with human feelings.

ttbn,

It usually comes from the people who have a vested interest in China's activities.

And there appears to be plenty of them on The Forum.

China is dragging the bottom of the South China Sea for clams, destroying coral reefs as they go. Not a peep from the sanctimonious environmentalists of course. In three years China has destroyed 28 reefs with this activity. This vandalism is quite deliberate: breaking up the coral makes the clams easier to get at. All captured by satellite images, as the arrogant, uncaring Chinese would well know. No "embarrassment" here, either

ttbn,

Why do you think I call them parasites?

Jared Diamond pointed that out in his book 'Collapse'.

He also said that environmental degradation was China's biggest export.

But who cares anymore? Have environmentalists gone underground because their fight to save the planet is now a hopeless one?