Liberal National Party senator James McGrath says Australia must stand up to China, but Labor senator Murray Watt believes war rhetoric has inflamed the situation.
Liberal National Party senator James McGrath believes China has restricted trade with Australia as punishment for questions about the origins of COVID-19.
“When you’re dealing with a bully - and Communist China is a bully, just look at Hong Kong, just look at the Uighurs - you have to draw a line in the sand somewhere,” Senator McGrath said. “I don’t think that’s helpful, I think that’s done for domestic political consumption, particularly to try to address the governments problems on its political right,” Senator Watt told the event.“But there’s a consequence, there’s an economic consequence in over-egging these issues through that kind of language.”
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