[est]

I've seen this narrative going arond the Interwebz for years, but in my memory China took retaliation measures before covid happened, during of Trump's trade war.

> https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN287099/

> Australia's ties with top trade partner China soured in 2018 when it became the first country to publicly ban China's Huawei from its 5G

[justinclift]

Isn't it more that relations with China already weren't fantastic when Covid started, and the above mentioned request for an investigation just made things worse?