Australia’s opposition leader Peter Dutton says that while he supports Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the centre-right coalition is staying “realistic” about what China is doing.
It comes after Albanese met with Xi earlier in the week and raising a host of issues with Beijing, from Xinjiang’s human rights issues to the detention of Chinese-Australian nationals, and the possible removal of trade sanctions that have stopped $20 billion (US$13.5 billion) worth of goods entering the China market.
The Coalition leader said on Sunday that China “has been difficult” with Canada, New Zealand, the United States, Britain, Australia, and many other nations over the course of recent years….