CANBERRA—The Chinese regime’s “alarming” actions do not match its rhetoric about promoting peace and prosperity in the region, Australia’s defense minister said on Friday after a Chinese navy ship was tracked sailing through the country’s exclusive economic zone. Defense Minister Peter Dutton listed the Chinese communist regime’s militarization of the South China Sea, recent aggression towards Taiwan and the introduction of a national security law in Hong Kong as examples of the Chinese regime’s actions being at odds with its rhetoric. “We’re all familiar with the frequent claims of the Chinese government that it is committed to peace, cooperation, and development,” Dutton said in a speech in Canberra. “And yet we bear witness to a significant disconnect between the words and the actions. We’ve watched very closely as the Chinese government has engaged in increasingly alarming activities.” Relations between Australia and its biggest export market reached a low in 2020 …