Beijing’s ‘Blatant Economic Coercion’ of Australia Threatens Security, Shared Values, Blinken Says

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks after a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, on March 24, 2021. Virginia Mayo/Pool AP/AFP via Getty Images

The Beijing regime’s “blatant economic coercion” against Australia is one of the three most urgent threats facing the world, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says.

Speaking at NATO headquarters in Belgium on March 24, he noted that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) poses a growing military and non-military threat that can no longer be ignored.