Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called the partnership between Beijing and Moscow “chilling” and said it was critical European and Indo-Pacific nations remain clear-eyed on the current global security climate. Speaking at the Lowy Institute on March 7, Morrison said he was deeply concerned about the similarities he was seeing between autocratic regimes in the Indo-Pacific region and the Russian authorities. “I found it quite chilling when I spoke to other leaders about conversations that they’ve had with President Putin about these issues, and they’re subjected to a rather lengthy lecture on nationalistic aspirations of Russia and what is rightly theirs,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison said. “That has a chilling reverberation with similar lectures that I have been on the receiving end of about situations in the Indo-Pacific and what people claim to be theirs,” he said. “So I think we have to be eternally vigilant on this, and …