Australia Cancels Chinese ‘Belt And Road’ Deal | China Blasts Australia’s Decision

Australia has cancelled, four bilateral deals with China, Iran and Syria, under new laws that give, the federal government, power to overrule international agreements, by lower-level administrations, that violate the national interest. The cancelled deals include, Victoria state’s, two “Belt and Road” Foreign Minister Marise Payne said in a statement, Those deals triggered the legislative response.infrastructure building initiative deals, with Beijing signed in 2018, and 2019, Victoria Education Department pacts, signed with Syria in 1999, and Iran in 2004, were also cancelled She described the deals, as “inconsistent with Australia’s foreign policy, or adverse to our foreign relations.”