China-Australia relations: Beijing ‘indefinitely suspends’ high-level economic dialogue with Canberra | SCMP

Scomo and Winnie, G20 Tokyo, October 2020

China deploys the "you-made-me-do-it" argument. You know, the one the husband chants as he beats his wife. The kidnapper's reason for killing the hostage. Australia calls for an independent investigation into the source of SARS Cov-2. How dare you?! Obey and Tremble, ye barbarians! Ye fan kuei, ye foreign devils, ye second-class vassals, desperate for our huge market. Screw you. You made me do it.

The bully excuse:

China's top economic planner said on Thursday that it had "indefinitely suspended" its high-level economic dialogue with Australia, amid escalating tensions between the two nations.

A short statement by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said all activities under the framework of the China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue had been "indefinitely suspended".

"Recently, some Australian Commonwealth government officials launched a series of measures to disrupt the normal exchanges and cooperation between China and Australia out of cold war mindset and ideological discrimination," the statement said. [Link]

PS: all time record number of comments for the SCMP, on this article. Including hundreds of the "Fifty Cent Army", mainland Chinese paid to do Beijing's dirty work, in this case trashing Australia. 

Trashing it, amongst other things, for being a purely white country. Put aside the racism, it's also not true. 30% of its population is outside-born, large numbers from Asia. Australia is vastly more ethnically diverse than China, the Han-dominant behemoth. Hypocrisy, folks, thy name is "Beijing".