'You will pay': China issues remarkable threat to Australia as Beijing warns of 'tremendous' economic damage if we continues to 'side with the US' - as they prepare for another round of crippling trade sanctions
China has warned that Australia will suffer further economic pain if it continues to be part of the US administration's 'roughneck gang'.
A strongly worded editorial in the Communist Party mouthpiece, China Daily, blasted the Morrison government for 'aggressively sending warships to China's doorsteps' as part of Exercise Malabar.
Australia's decision to take part in the war games this week alongside Beijing's Indo-Pacific rivals - the US, Japan and India - has outraged the authoritarian regime as tensions between the two countries rapidly deteriorate.
To punish Australia for pushing back against the totalitarian nation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Beijing has threatened to ban an unprecedented number of Australia exports.
Several reports suggested all Chinese companies have been instructed by the Communist Party to stop buying Australian products, but there has been no official sanction.
This includes barley, sugar, red wine, timber, coal, lobster and copper as Beijing looks to turn the screws on Australia's largest export market, worth more than $150billion.
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