US Supports Australia’s Move to Cancel Belt and Road

U.S. State Department Spokesman Ned Price speaks ahead of an address by Secretary of State Antony Blinken during the release of the "2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices," at the State Department in Washington on March 30, 2021. Mandel Ngan/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said the United States supports Australia’s decision to cancel two Belt and Road Initiative arrangements with Beijing.

“We continue to stand with the people of Australia as they bear the brunt of the PRC’s coercive behavior,” Price said. “The Australian government had determined that the agreements ... to be inconsistent with Australia’s foreign policy or adverse to Australia’s foreign relations.”