Recent Morrison Government warmongering took a breather yesterday after the CCP struck back by suspending the China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue. Frankly, the dialogue has been dead for four years anyway so this rather suggests that Beijing has run out of levers to pull.
Ahead, Australia will likely cancel Andrew Robb’s treasonous Darwin port deal as well. Bravo to that too. How will China respond?
The truth is, Chinese leverage over Australia was always exaggerated. As we’ve pointed out from the outset, commodities are fungible and if China doesn’t want ’em then somebody else will.