What happens between China and Australia?

The two countries have been fighting for months, ever since Australia asked for an international investigation against China for the spread of the virus. Now it has been discovered that Australian intelligence has seized the computers of some Chinese journalists stationed on the island

The Australian embassy in Beijing (photo: Greg Baker / Afp / Getty Images) Diplomatic relations between China and Australia , in the last period, they have particularly cracked. The tensions began a few months ago, when Australia asked for the launch of an international investigation against Beijing to verify its responsibilities in the spread of Covid-19 worldwide, to which China has responded with the imposition of particularly heavy duties on goods from the island. According to reports from the Chinese newspaper administered by the Communist Party Global Times, in June Australian secret service agents broke into the homes of some Chinese reporters to interrogate them and confiscate smartphones and computers. The Chinese embassy shared the article on its website, denouncing the fact and underlining how much the action is in open violation of the rights of Chinese citizens.

The affair - which has only just emerged, but happened in June - involving Chinese journalists will only exacerbate an already particularly tense situation.