Penny Wong joins US and Japan urging China to ‘immediately cease’ firing over the Taiwan Strait
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong has joined her American and Japanese counterparts to lash China for firing five missiles into the ocean in Japan’s economic zone, hours after China halted all dialogue with the United States on major issues including climate change and military relations.
Taiwan’s army broadcast a warning and deployed air reconnaissance patrol forces and ships to monitor while putting shore-based missiles on standby. They condemned Beijing’s “launch of ballistic missiles, five of which the Japanese government reported landed in its exclusive economic zones, raising tension and destabilising the region” and urged it to “immediately cease the military exercises” over the Taiwan Strait.Along with suspending talks on military relations and climate change, China’s Foreign Ministry said dialogue on the prevention of cross-border crime and drug trafficking would also be halted.
Senior Fellow at the Lowy Institute Richard McGregor said the world’s historical biggest emitter and the current biggest emitter not talking to each other was “obviously not a good thing”.
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