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Are Australia and the US, the countries which have been provoking other countries, setting the standard for a “red line?” Has NATO, which provoked Russia for decades through an eastward expansion respected Russia’s red line? And has Australia, which kept sending lethal weapons to the war zone to support Ukraine, ever taken Russia’s red line into account? ....
China has threatened a counterstrike against Australia after Canberra condemned Beijing s mass arrest of 55 politicians and activists in Hong Kong. Foreign Ministry spokesman Lijian Zhao, who has a fake image of an Australian soldier holding a bloody knife to a child s throat pinned to the top of his Twitter account, said anyone who gets in the way of China s affairs would suffer. The Chinese people s resolve to defend our sovereignty and territorial integrity is unshakeable and we will not permit any person or force to stop the process of China s reunification, he told a press briefing on Monday. Any actions which harm China s core interests will be met with a resolute counterstrike and will not succeed. ....
Follows a meeting between China s top economic planner and power companies State-controlled newspaper Global Times fired another parting shot at Canberra Coal has become the latest casualty in Australia s trade war with China as Beijing escalates tensions further with another spiteful swipe at the federal government. Australian coal exports to China, worth $14billion a year and the third-biggest export, were officially blacklisted at a high-powered meeting between National Development Reform and Commission and Chinese power companies on Saturday. ADVERTISEMENT There are fears iron ore exports may be next on Beijing s hit list in the wake of tariffs on Australian wine and barley on top of sanctions on beef, timber, cotton, lamb and lobster. ....