2021-05-21 09:04:12 GMT2021-05-21 17:04:12(Beijing Time) Sina English
The U.S. will not leave Australia to face “China coercion” by itself. So claimed US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a press briefing with his Aussie counterpart Marise Payne on May 14. Indeed, the U.S. has always stood by Australia’s side in forming their hatred-driven, anti-China alliance. But as Australia gets stuck in the pair’s morality play and Cold War mentality at the expense of its economic and diplomatic interests in China, its ally is speculating and profiting from the feud.
Following the Australian government’s flagrant meddling in China’s internal affairs, aided and abetted by the U.S., its relations with China, which accounts for around 48.8% of its total exports, have sunk to their lowest ebb in decades. As a member of the “Quad”, which is obsessed with its “boycott culture”, Australia soon felt the self-inflicted economic pain, with Chinese buyers shunning Australia amid its rising anti-China sentiment.