U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has named Beijing’s “blatant economic coercion” against Australia as one example of the three most urgent threats the world faces today. Speaking at NATO headquarters in Belgium on March 24, Blinked noted that Beijing posed a growing military and non-military threat that could no longer be ignored. “Beijing’s military ambitions are growing by the year,” Blinken said, while outlining the first major threat. “Coupled with the realities of modern technology, the challenges that once seemed half a world away are no longer remote.” “There’s no question that Beijing’s coercive behavior threatens our collective security and prosperity and that it is actively working to undercut the rules of the international system and the values we and our allies share,” he went on to say, while outlining the second major threat. He gave the example of “China’s blatant economic coercion of Australia” as an aggressive non-military …