Liberal Party Defence and National Security Policy Chair Lincoln Parker says it certainly appears like Prime Minister Anthony Albanese may have covered up the Chinese warship sonar incident.
“Because this incident happened a good few days before APEC 2023 in San Francisco and we saw the Prime Minister go over to Xi Jinping with a big smile on his face and shake his hands with two hands over it,” Mr Parker told Sky News host Erin Molan.
“I don’t think he did what Ambassador Rudd said and that’s do a pull-aside where he raised the issue that our ship was in distress, it was disabled, it was in Japanese waters.
“And the Australian ship had communicated with a nearby Chinese destroyer and said, ‘we are disabled, we are in distress, we’ve got divers in the water trying to unfoul our screws’, so the propeller had been caught in fishing nets.
“And yet the Chinese destroyer came closer and then deployed its active sonar which can actually be fatal to divers.”
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The Aust state & federal governments are subsidising the CCP via BYD electric cars & solar panels rebates – they are financing the CCPchowchow’s military for goodness sake🤪
Also the Arselicker
Murdoch is going to sell you to the highest bidder 😅
A pack of lies. Aussies get fucked by the Aussies!! Listening to this man is sickening!!
This is what the left calls nuanced diplomacy
Albo is SPINELESS!
I've got a feeling that the only awake Aussies are in this sky news Australia comment section gg guys and girls and its.
Would Albanese ever act in such a manner? or would he not? It's like putting your trust in the Devil to guide you safely to heaven if you trust this guy.
Whatever the truth of the "sonar incident" it is encumbant on both China and Australia to have good relations, however it is a belligerent China that swings it weight around, recently refusing to endorse an Asian conference appeal that all countries should abide by one law of the sea, all the other Asian countries involved said , " Yes , let us all be ruled by ONE law that applies eaually to ALL OF US! China said NO!
Labor has always been a friend of the PRC.
Isn't it far more important to sell crayfish, wine and few other things to China than damaging the re-established relationship with the CCP over the issue of a few injured navy divers. Haha! I'm sure the ex-PM ScoMo would have denounced this unprovoked incident without hesitation.
What Australia ship doing in China backyard? Trouble maker Australia navy!!!
Albanese not Albo cause he dose not need a friendly nickname is a gutless wonder .
Failed Sucessive Gov's, Failed Short Term planning processes, Failed Applications of Policy. A vertual cascading set of events that have not stopped & no one is saying "Wait" lets think this thru & get it right.😮
How could the australian ship be travelling between china and Taiwan and be in japanese waters. Erin, your father was in the military but you worked long term on a rugby league show. Not a military expert by any means
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Our PM is weak a little mummy’s boy in a man’s world, his rent a rag has bigger balls than he has.
Airbus xinnie the poohs pet is a flop, time for a change of government
Well, why should anyone be surprised at the state of our navy, when the demented politicians in our government are wasting billions of dollars on useless, unnecessary green energy BS? Naturally, there is little money left for important matters.
Australia. Already invaded with panjeets.
Albo… has to go… he is not a Prime Minister’s bootlace.
Between him and a number of labour politicians China owns a good percentage of Australia
Albanese is handing Australia on a platter to China .
He didn't dare disagree because of cowardice 💯 percent
Australia is merely an American tool. Whatever Prime Minister Joe Biden says goes.
Albo needs to go
Aussie navy is like a thug looking for trouble on somebody's property.
They think their victims will not notice them.
They travel half across the globe just to create trouble on someone's property.
When confronted by their victim to be and presented a dose of their own medicine, they're acting as if they're the one who was bullied and victimized.
Shameless thug.
Albo didn't want to upset his overlord Xi Jiping.
Time to immigrate to China Elmer Fudd, your not an Aussie, your a paid up member of the CCP.
We never voted for you, your Labor mates did.
The ADF can't even house their members… they are left to fight for rentals along with everyone else when they are posted… it is a joke