Morrison’s ‘economic coercion’ remarks risk further sinking China ties: observers
Xu Keyue Published: Jun 09, 2021 10:32 PM
Australia s Prime Minister Scott Morrison reacting during a press conference at Australia s Parliament House in Canberra on March 22, 2021. Photo: VCG
Chinese observers said that Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison s provocative remarks could push China-Australia relations deeper into the abyss, as Morrison called for G7 nations support of reforms to the World Trade Organization (WTO) to blunt economic coercion.
As Australia s trade disputes and souring relations with its largest trading partner - China - continue, Morrison told the Perth USAsia Center on Wednesday ahead of the G7 meeting that the global rules-based order is under renewed strain, media reported.
Smallest member of world’s oldest intelligence-sharing network prefers a more traditional approach to megaphone diplomacy, according to analystsThey say it suggests different ideas on the purpose of the alliance and that Wellington doesn’t want to damage relations with Beijing, as others have
Over 200 Scots cops leave police HQ for G7 conference duties in massive convoy
Updated: 6 Jun 2021, 14:20
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SCOTS cops and civvy staff left in a massive convoy for Cornwall earlier today after more than 400 were drafted in to help police the G7 summit.
Hundreds of officers headed south this morning to help guard the high-security event attended by leaders including US President Joe Biden.
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More than 200 officers left Police Scotland s HQ earlier for the G7 summit in Cornwall
Police chiefs are braced for protests from anti-capitalist and climate change demonstrators when the G7 economic superpowers - the UK, US, Germany, Italy, Canada, France and Japan - meet from June 11-13 at seaside resort Carbis Bay.
Tokyo would step up militarily to defend Taiwan if Beijing moved to reunify the island with mainland China by force, former deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger said in a panel discussion on Tuesday with other top Trump administration officials.
Pottinger, considered one of the key architects of the Trump administration’s hardline China policies, said Japan first suggested a quadrilateral alliance with the US, India and Australia – now known as the “Quad” – as a defence strategy against China. He also pushed back on assertions that the former administration strained ties with Japan and other allies in the region.
“Some of the key pillars of our strategy in the Indo-Pacific region were ideas that we borrowed and adapted and shared and collaborated on with Japan,” Pottinger said in a panel discussion featuring former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and former national security adviser Robert O’Brien, called a “Seminar on Conservative Realism and National S