Australia-China Relationship - What Does This Mean?

Australia blocked China's investment in a rare earth project, citing national interests. The decision suggests that the Australia-China relationship will still be fraught with all sorts of points of really severe contention. Canberra has this longstanding policy of having a fairly securitized, fairly cautious natural interest approach to these kinds of investments. But Albert EZ government is pretty committed to trying to mollify as much as possible and offer Beijing as many carrots as it can.