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MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia will seek to be included in consultations over a trade dispute between the European Union and China that the EU launched at the World Trade Organisation, the Australian trade minister said on Saturday. The EU launched a challenge at the WTO on Thursday accusing China of discriminatory trade practices against Lithuania that it says threaten the integrity of the single market. China has downgraded diplomatic ties with Lithuania and pressured multinationals to sever links with the Baltic nation of 2.8 million people after it allowed Taiwan to open a de facto embass…