AUSTRALIA DITCHED BY FRIEND TURNED FOE CHINA; REACHES OUT TO ASIAN ECONOMIES

• Australia is proving to the rest of the world just how worse off you can be when you stand up to China.
• Ties between the two key export trading partners have been strained since 2018 when Canberra shunned Huawei from building its 5G network.

But relations have really been in the cold since Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government in April led calls for an inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus ....