Kathryn Ryan discusses Australia and China's increasingly fractious and deteriorating relationship with Peter Hartcher political editor and international editor for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
Relations between the two countries have been on the decline for several years since Australia became the first country to ban Huawei from building its 5G network in 2018.
Last year, Australia called for an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.
China followed this quickly by imposing sanctions on a range of Australian imports including wine, beef, barley, cotton, seafood, timber and coal, and warned its citizens not to travel to Australia.
This week Australia announced it would lodge a formal complaint with the WTO.
Peter Hartcher's book Red Zone, draws on interviews with Scott Morrison, Malcolm Turnbull, Kevin Rudd and Peter Dutton as well as a range of security sources and China watchers.
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