Australia is in a bad spot with China. A very bad spot. They are reliant on exports to China and China owns a lot of stuff inside Australia.
Sky News has been quite interesting on this topic. Many of their leaders are firmly in bed with the CCP and their entanglement with China is far worse than ours.
“They (Australia) are reliant on exports to China”
...and China depends on mineral imports from Australia, such as iron.
China relies on bullying and corrupting countries, one by one, to get its way.
But they have accumulated enemies, and alienated major relationships (like Australia) in the process.
Consensus is growing that the oppressive communist dictatorship in China can no longer be treated as just another country, that plays by the same rules. They don’t. They are a unique, and very active, threat to free countries everywhere.