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Beijing has fired another round of insults at Australia and claimed that speaking out on Chinese human rights abuses is the the new political correctness .
An op-ed published in the Communist Party mouthpiece the Global Times said the writing is the wall for relations to deteriorate further in 2021 unless Canberra stops seeing China s as a threat .
The latest criticism of Australia s confronting attitude towards China comes just one day after the authoritarian regime arrested over 50 pro-democracy campaigners in Hong Kong and banned World Health Organisation officials from investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan.
Relations between Australia have soured dramatically since April after Prime Minister Scott Morrisons called for virus investigators to be granted access to China and given the same wide-reaching powers as UN weapons inspectors.
A Chinese submarine drone has been discovered in crucial maritime trade waters amid escalating tensions between China and Australia.
Indonesian fishermen found the two-metre unmanned underwater drone in waters near Selayar Island, just off South Sulawesi, on December 20.
The UUV was reported to authorities six days later and images published in local media showed Indonesian military officers posing with the long grey drone.
Officials stated the discovery was significant as the UUV was found in a crucial maritime route linking the South China Sea and Darwin, ABC News reported.
Information gathered by the drone could be used by the Chinese navy if the communist government decided to use the trade routes, experts fear.
Trade and political hostilities between Australia and China could be on the mend after relations between the nations escalated into a bitter year-long $20billion war.
China s foreign minister Wang Yi has indicated he wants relations repaired as early as possible - but added the ball is in Australia s court.
Antagonism rapidly escalated after Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison called for an independent inquiry into the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic from its source in the Chinese city of Wuhan back in April.
China responded by slapping tariffs on Australian wine and barley, adding sanctions on beef, wheat, timber, cotton, lamb, coal and lobster.