Beijing has fired another round of insults at Australia and claimed that speaking out on Chinese human rights abuses is the 'the new political correctness'. An op-ed published in the Communist Party mouthpiece the Global Times said 'the writing is the wall' for relations to deteriorate further in 2021 unless Canberra stops seeing China's as a 'threat'. The latest criticism of Australia's 'confronting' attitude towards China comes just one day after the authoritarian regime arrested over 50 pro-democracy campaigners in Hong Kong and banned World Health Organisation officials from investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan. Relations between Australia have soured dramatically since April after Prime Minister Scott Morrisons called for virus investigators to be granted access to China and given the same wide-reaching powers as UN weapons inspectors.