Australian politics live: Scott Morrison tells US that Australia’s ability to resist Chinese influence is ‘in jeopardy’ | Australia news
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Morrison says that Australia has become less willing to resist Chinese pressure
Scott Morrison said that the ability of the Australian political system to resist the pressure from China was at the hearing of the US House of Representatives in Washington on a night.
The former Prime Minister warned that the US deputies say that Western countries are “building internal flexibility ve and that they say that they are attempts to intervene in politics and to prevent free speech.
The former Prime Minister, who referred to the vote by the Lowy Institute, told US deputies to the US deputies, for the first time in a few years, there is a greater value than concerns about the threat of security on economic partnership with China ”.
“This is a goal of CCP [Chinese communist party]”Morrison said to the committee.
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