{"id":440078,"date":"2021-04-21T21:20:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T01:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=440078"},"modified":"2021-04-21T21:20:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T01:20:47","slug":"australia-severs-regional-belt-road-deals-with-china-fm-payne-says-deals-with-beijing-inconsistent-with-australias-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/australia-severs-regional-belt-road-deals-with-china-fm-payne-says-deals-with-beijing-inconsistent-with-australias-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia severs regional \u2018Belt &#038; Road\u2019 deals with China, FM Payne says deals with Beijing inconsistent with Australia\u2019s foreign policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faustralia-severs-regional-belt-road-deals-with-china-fm-payne-says-deals-with-beijing-inconsistent-with-australias-foreign-policy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=440078&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2401667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2401667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne during a press conference in the Prime Ministers Courtyard at Parliament House on March 17, 2021 in Canberra, Australia.\u00a0 (Photo by Sam Mooy\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 5:45 PM PT \u2013 Wednesday, April 21, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Australia has ceased all economic partnerships with Mainland China under its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/national\/politics\/belt-and-road-scott-morrison-tears-up-china-agreement\/news-story\/c3bd926d7d39dbf6898220221dddebd0\">Belt and Road Initiative<\/a> due to risks of political pressure by Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf China comes knocking and says: \u2018Hey, by the way, there\u2019s all this money here you can use for infrastructure. Oh, no problem, don\u2019t worry about it,&#8217;\u201d Caleb Bond, political analyst for \u2018The Advertiser \u2013 Australia,\u2019 stated. \u201cPull the other one. They\u2019re not doing this out of goodwill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marise Payne takes Victorian government &#039;head on&#039; over Belt and Road\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NPktkrVnDEk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>The decision by Australia\u2019s central government came in response to the state of Victoria joining Belt and Road several years ago. The deals were inked by Victorian officials back in 2004 and 2018, but Foreign Minister Marise Payne said those accords are now inconsistent with Australia\u2019s foreign policy and are void.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina has been going around basically buying different islands,\u201d Bond added. \u201cThey offer loads of money to islands in the South Pacific. They take the money, they spend it on whatever it is they want to build. They then default. They can\u2019t pay the money back, China sweeps in and takes the island. It\u2019s as simple as that or they call them in for favors, whatever is beneficial at the time. And it would be no different with Victoria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Minister Payne also said Australia holds China responsible for the spread of COVID-19 and is continuing the probe into the origins of the virus.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sen-susan-collins-joins-dems-to-undo-president-trumps-methane-policies\/\">Sen. Susan Collins Joins Dems To Undo President Trump\u2019s Methane Policies<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne during a press conference in the Prime Ministers Courtyard at Parliament House on March 17, 2021 in Canberra, Australia.\u00a0 (Photo by Sam Mooy\/Getty Images) &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276437,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"Australia severs regional \u2018Belt &#038; Road\u2019 deals with China, FM Payne says deals with Beijing inconsistent with Australia\u2019s foreign policy","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_video_url":"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=NPktkrVnDEk","fifu_image_alt":"Australia severs regional \u2018Belt &#038; Road\u2019 deals with China, FM Payne says deals with Beijing inconsistent with Australia\u2019s foreign policy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}