Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Defence Minister Richard Marles will both soon travel to the Philippines as the government walks a tightrope on the South China Sea.
The Australian government is trying to chart a careful course in the South China Sea as it considers joint naval patrols in the disputed waterway with the Philippines while simultaneously bidding to improve relations with Beijing.
which was transporting provisions to the crew on a dilapidated warship that Manila deliberately grounded almost a quarter of a century ago as a mark of its territory. A Chinese Coast Guard ship aims a water cannon at a Philippine military resupply boat near Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratly Islands on August 5.Albanese will be the first Australian leader in 20 years to visit the Philippines, a reflection of the growing importance of the south-east Asian archipelago in Australia’s strategic outlook.
The Sierra Madre, a Second World War warship intentionally grounded by the Philippines in 1999 as a mark of its territorial claims in the South China Sea.“I think as long as we are engaging very clearly and sensibly and understandably in pursuit of our national interest, that is something that every country will be able to understand including China,” Marles said.
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