China Halts Australia Economic Dialogue in New Retaliation
- Largely symbolic suspension to meeting last held in 2017
- China blames ‘Cold War mindset’ of some Australian officials
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China announced that it was suspending a ministerial economic dialogue with Australia, in a largely symbolic move showing Beijing’s growing frustration with Canberra.
China will indefinitely halt all activities under the China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue, the National Development and Reform Commission said in a statement Thursday. While the two sides have held three rounds of talks under the mechanism since 2014, it hasn’t convened since September 2017.