China suspends economic accord with Australia

Beijing (AFP) May 6, 2021

China said on Thursday it had suspended an economic agreement with Australia, in an apparent tit-for-tat response to Canberra's scrapping of a Belt and Road infrastructure pact and threat to undo a deal leasing Darwin Port to a Chinese company. Relations between the two sides have collapsed into acrimony after Canberra called for an independent probe into the origins of the coronavirus pande