PM digs in on defence spending despite White House push
Anthony Albanese returned to calls to lift Australia’s defense expenditures despite the pressure from the United States.
NATO allies, US President Donald Trump’s calls to support, after the negotiations in the Netherlands, defense expenditures to the national gross domestic product agreed to increase.
The increase has put pressure to do the same of other US allies, and the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says that countries such as Australia should follow the case.
“If our allies in Europe and our NATO allies can do this, I think our allies and our friends in the Asia Pacific region can do so,” he said.
The Federal government agreed to increase defense expenditures from two percent of GDP to 2.3 percent by 2033/34.
The Prime Minister said that despite the disappointment of questions about whether Australia will increase the defense budget further, the current plan taken to the Federal elections will be followed.
“To ensure that Australia has the ability we need. This is what we invest,” he said.
“We have increased our defense investment.
“We have increased more than $ 57 billion in the medium term and more than 10 billion dollars in the short term.”
NATO Nations on the five percent increase in the exit was Spain, which said it could not get a hostage.
Mr. Trump warned Spain that if the security of the security of Pact does not depend on the defense commitment of Pact, his exports can be slapped by the United States with new tariffs.
When Australia was asked if he was worried about whether he could face a similar threat to the president, he played the Albanian candidate.
“Today, there is a great focus on Spain in this region of East Hills (where the press conference took place).
Im When it comes to economic issues, I talked to the US Treasury Secretary only a week ago when it comes to economic issues.
“I will not comment on the things between Spain and the United States. My job includes our national interests of Australia, including our defense and security interests.”
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Penny Wong is preparing to fly to the United States to meet with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Meeting with Mr. Rubio will be part of the negotiations between the external ministers of Nations, including Japan and India.
Four foreign ministers met in January and focused on problems in the Indo-Pacific alliance of four countries.
The Federal Opposition was also vocal in the midst of global uncertainty calling for support to the defense budget.
Opposition Defense Spokesman Angus Taylor, defense expenditures GDP GDP above 2.3 percent of an increase is needed, he said.
In his statement to ABC Radyo, he said, ız We need to take our defense expenditures to meet our own plans and make sure that we have absolutely necessary agility and delivery in this new world, ”he said.
“(The country’s defense strategy) is not appropriate at a time when the authoritarian regimes did not do since the Second World War.”
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