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Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastRichard Marles raises concern with Chinese counterpart over ‘unsafe incidents’ at seaThe defence minister, Richard Marles, said he raised concern in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart over recent “unsafe incidents” between Chinese and Australian military forces.One of the things that we need to be doing in our relationship with China, as you said at the start, is to be speaking with clarity and to make sure that we are, as we say, disagreeing where we must. But that means making clear where we have differences and where there are issues that need to be raised and need to be highlighted. And certainly those two incidents in the last six or seven months warrant that.We definitely do not want to gratuitously antagonise China, that’s not what we’re trying to do. But at the same time, it is important that we speak to our national interests, that there is never any question about that, and that when there are matters that need to be said, we say them and we say them with a clear, articulate voice, and that is what we’ve done in relation to these incidents. Continue reading...
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Richard Marles raises concern with Chinese counterpart over ‘unsafe incidents’ at sea
The defence minister, Richard Marles, said he raised concern in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart over recent “unsafe incidents” between Chinese and Australian military forces.
One of the things that we need to be doing in our relationship with China, as you said at the start, is to be speaking with clarity and to make sure that we are, as we say, disagreeing where we must. But that means making clear where we have differences and where there are issues that need to be raised and need to be highlighted. And certainly those two incidents in the last six or seven months warrant that.
We definitely do not want to gratuitously antagonise China, that’s not what we’re trying to do. But at the same time, it is important that we speak to our national interests, that there is never any question about that, and that when there are matters that need to be said, we say them and we say them with a clear, articulate voice, and that is what we’ve done in relation to these incidents. Continue reading...
