Yeah, that’s another front. There won’t be any sympathy for China In the Muslim world - that includes Indonesia. Xi is doing a bang up job making enemies in all directions.
the fourth member of the so-called “Quad” Is Australia, which does get a mention in the article:
- East China Sea issues also came up in conversation Monday between Kishi and his counterpart from Australia, the fourth member of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue that met last week in Tokyo. At the gathering, Pompeo said it was urgent that the U.S., Australia, India and Japan “collaborate to protect our people and partners from the CCP’s exploitation, corruption, and coercion.” -
12 Oct: BBC: How Australia-China relations have hit ‘lowest ebb in decades’
By Shaimaa Khalil
“The Australia-China relationship is unravelling at a pace that could not have been contemplated just six months ago,” academic James Laurenceson (director of the Australia-China Relations Institute at the University of Technology Sydney) wrote recently...
In 2018, Australia became the first country to publicly ban the Chinese tech giant Huawei from being involved in its 5G network, citing national security reasons. There have been numerous other flashpoints since...
The real trigger this year has been Australia calling for an investigation into the origins of Covid-19, which was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan...
Professor Laurenceson told the BBC that Beijing’s anger was directed not just at the political rhetoric but at Australia’s stance on the global balance of power.
“China is seeing that Australia is making its choice to line up with America in a geopolitical competition,” he said.
In late April, China’s ambassador to Canberra, Cheng Jingye, threatened that Chinese people could boycott Australian products...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54458638
left-wing Opposition party not exactly supportive! left media rather enjoying it:
13 Oct: ABC Australia: Federal Government looking into reports Chinese energy providers told to stop importing Australian coal
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said China does sometimes change its import demand based on how much coal it is receiving domestically...
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese said it did not seem like the Government was making any effort to have a positive and constructive relationship with China.
“[The reports are] a huge concern, but the Government needs to actually have a relationship with the nation which is the destination for, on Labor’s figures, around 48 per cent of our exports,” he said...
Earlier this year, China imposed import tariffs on Australian beef and barley as relations between the two countries hit a new low.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-13/government-looking-at-reports-chinese-ban-australian-coal-import/12760406
That is true, and I don’t think it is advantageous to China. Rising tensions all around their periphery. And Xi seems to have lost control of the dialog.