Australia said it wants to decouple from China.

Every single day, Australia takes a hostile action indicating that it regards China as an enemy country. Like:

• Joining the Quad and Inter-Parliamentary Alliance
• Giving a press conference with Sleepy Joe insinuating that covid-19 was leaked from a Chinese lab, and ignoring a Chinese offer to send Australia all possible data on the outbreak
• Calling China an “unreliable trade partner" after Australia got practically its entire economic rise and its enjoyment of the high life thanks to China's need for ore
• Constantly running its very loud mouth to condemn China for putting an end to the riots in Hong Kong
• Hosting US hypersonic missiles intended to intimidate China
• Sending warships to participate in America's constant 1800s-esque gunboat diplomacy off the Chinese coast (the white supremacists call this “supporting freedom of navigation")
• Saying it wants the WHO to investigate the covid-19 outbreak in China “weapons-inspector style" (what the fuck?)
• Tearing up the BRI agreements without even notifying China in advance. Even Sleepy Joe had the courtesy to call Erdogan before recognizing the Armenian Genocide
• Now “warning" that China's about to attack the fake banana-state of Taiwan and saying Australia should prepare

China is not “punishing" Australia. It's simply —

respecting its trade partner's wishes to decouple!

Source: Quora