Will Joe Biden’s election help an Australia-China reset?

One of the most dominant economic issues Australia faced last year (outside of the coronavirus pandemic, of course) was the significant deterioration in Sino-Australian relations.

As one of our biggest export markets, China’s economic relationship is an important one. We all remember the narrative of how Chinese demand for our commodities ‘saved’ us from the ravages of the global financial crisis more than a decade ago. Indeed, it’s likely that this relationship was instrumental in keeping Australia from plunging into an official recession when almost every other country in the world did.

But, a decade later, how things have changed.

Sino-Australian relations are arguably at their lowest point in a generation. When the…