Australian right-leaning government called for an independent investigation of the origins of Covid. Chinese government responded by sanctioning Australian imports for years.

I've seen this narrative going arond the Interwebz for years, but in my memory China took retaliation measures before covid happened, during of Trump's trade war.

> https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN287099/

> Australia's ties with top trade partner China soured in 2018 when it became the first country to publicly ban China's Huawei from its 5G

Isn't it more that relations with China already weren't fantastic when Covid started, and the above mentioned request for an investigation just made things worse?

Probably relating at least to the coal situation a couple years back.