The CCP’s Economic Coercion Tactics Against Australia Meet Its Waterloo

Coercive economic policy is one of the key means of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) presumptuous wolf warrior diplomacy. Seemingly, the CCP has great favorable conditions for its retaliation against Australia.

Federal MP George Christensen's website for the "China Inquiry" in Sydney, Australia, on May 14, 2020. Daniel Teng/The Epoch Times

Commentary

Coercive economic policy is one of the key means of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) presumptuous diplomacy style. Take a look at the foreign ministers’ meeting at G7 on May 5, when it criticized the CCP for “arbitrary, coercive, economic policies and practices.” The next day, the CCP’s National Development & Reform Commission (NDRC) issued a statement on its indefinite suspension of all activities under the China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue, stepping up its economic coercion of Australia to a whole new level since 2020.