Making a defence funding announcement in WA, prime minister continues to face questions about his handling of national security issues
Sogavare told parliament this week that Solomon Islands was being treated like kindergarten children and he deplored how countries concerned about the deal had implied a “warning of military intervention” if their national and strategic interests were undermined.
“When it comes to dealing with the coercion that we see from the Chinese government - whether here in our region, in the south-west Pacific, or anywhere else across the Indo-Pacific, there is no government, there is no prime minister, that has been more forward-leaning in standing up to that coercion in face of the world,” Morrison said.
“I’m not going to pre-empt any such commercial negotiation. That would be foolish. That would be reckless.”
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