Australia’s move to acquire nuclear-powered submarines won’t compromise its newly improved relationship with China, says shadow defence minister Andrew Hastie.
But when asked if Australia had made itself yet again a target for trade sanctions from China, which accused AUKUS partners of going down a “path of error and danger” following the announcement of the up to $368 billion deal for nuclear submarines, Mr Hastie said: “No, I don’t think so”.
“It’s really important that we maintain a good relationship with China. Certainly, we don’t want to create any issues with China, we just want to make sure we will be able to defend ourselves in the future,” he said.Alex Ellinghausen “There is a growing degree of optimism, particularly in South Australia, whether it be our crayfishermen and women, or grape producers, that there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel.
The Asian superpower’s foreign ministry spokesman, Wang Wenbin, said Australia, the UK and the US had disregarded the concerns of international communities in launching the deal. “The task now is to move from stabilisation to normalisation and that means, really, China dropping the unreasonable and wrong trade measures it took against Australia in April 2020,” Mr Raby told the ABC.
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