Australia-China Queensland: Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne on Wednesday said the federal government would override the Victorian state government's decision to sign up to the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), media reports said.
The move will further plummet the already sour China-Australia relations to a new low. Some Australian experts believe Canberra could have just let the deal lapse and not approve new agreements.
But it chose to scrap the deal at this time. This truly shows that Australia does not care about its relations with China anymore, reports Global Mail.
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Australia obviously wants to send a signal to the international community and set an example to the other countries which have been cooperating with China under the BRI framework. Among these countries, its close neighbor New Zealand is the first target for this provocation, the newspaper reported.
The announcement came at a time when she was visiting New Zealand.
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