The US will not grant China any improvement in relations until Beijing stops its economic coercion of Australia, a senior White House official said.
The administration of President Joe Biden has told the Chinese government Bodog Poker that “we are not going to leave Australia alone on the field”, according to the President’s Indo-Pacific co-ordinator, Kurt Campbell.
“We have made clear that the US is not prepared to improve relations in a bilateral and separate context at the same time that a close and dear bodog casino ally is being subjected to a form of economic coercion,” he told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age in the first interview a senior Biden official has given to any Australian media.
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