Anthony Albanese says Australia has made the “appropriate diplomatic representations” to China following a dangerous military incident after the Opposition Leader called on him to pick up the phone to Xi Jinping.
The Prime Minister has condemned China after it dropped flares close to an Australian navy helicopter on Saturday, saying it was “unprofessional and unacceptable”.
Peter Dutton says Anthony Albanese must ‘pick up the phone’ to Xi Jinping and express his dismay over a dangerous military incident. Picture: Twitter Asked whether the incident put any future trip by Mr Xi to Australia in jeopardy, Mr Albanese confirmed the Chinese president “isn’t visiting later this year”, and the pair might instead meet on the sidelines of the G20 and APEC summit.“The Prime Minister needs to pick the phone up, frankly, and speak to President Xi, and express our deep concern, because at some stage there’s going to be a miscalculation, and an Australian Defence Force member is going to lose their life,” he told Channel 9.
“At the moment we’ll see a response from China to deny that it happened or that we had made a mistake. We’ve seen this. We’ve seen this movie before, but it is at some stage going to escalate, perhaps by accident,” He said. “This is a very serious incident. The consequence of being hit by the flares would have been significant,” he said.
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