Tag: Andrew Hastie

Call for China Appeasement: Premier Says PM Should Bring Entourage of State Leaders to Meet With Xi

April 20, 2023
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the nation’s state leaders should come together to visit and meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, says Western Australian (WA) Premier Mark McGowan. The Labor Premier McGowan is currently touring China—WA’s largest trading partner—and has been vocal in his support for stronger economic ties with Beijing and critical of…

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Australia Denies Asylum to Defecting Chinese Spy Wang Liqiang

January 10, 2023
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Wang Liqiang, who publicly defected from Beijing on Australian national television, has been denied asylum. The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) said Wang could not be granted refugee status despite having “well-founded” concerns about returning to China because he committed fraud before entering Australia on a tourist visa, The Daily Telegraph reported. The AAT also doubted…

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Australian Shadow Defence Minister Calls for Faster Military Capabilities to Protect Taiwan From Beijing

November 3, 2022
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Australia must speed up efforts to build a military strike capability before nuclear submarines are ready to prepare for China’s possible aggression against Taiwan, Australian shadow Defence Minister Andrew Hastie said. In a speech at a Business News Politics and policy breakfast in Perth on Nov. 2, Hastie called for the country to “build and…

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Media Mischaracterising AUKUS and Ignoring Benefits: Defence Experts

September 16, 2022
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Media outlets have mischaracterised the AUKUS deal and focused too much on the challenges of helping Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines while ignoring the significant technology exchange between the U.S., UK, and Australia, according to defence experts at a recent Hudson Institute panel discussion. Australian Senator Andrew Hastie joined the Institute’s Asia-Pacific Security Chair Patrick Cronin, a…

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IPAC Alliance To Campaign Globally Against CCP on Human Rights Violations

September 16, 2022
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Politicians from around the world have agreed to campaign worldwide for the imposition of sanctions on Chinese human rights abusers under a multinational plan. The decision is part of the latest plan of action in response to the behaviour of Beijing from the global Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), which held its annual summit in…

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‘Toxic’ Values Undermining US Ability to Tackle Beijing: Senator

September 15, 2022
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Visiting Australian Senator Andrew Hastie says basic struggles with identifying gender are undermining the ability of the United States to lead the developed world in opposing military aggression from Beijing. “These tensions are tearing at the fabric of our democracies, many among us are no longer confident of truth, tradition, and our democratic values,” Hastie,…

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Poll: Nearly 50 Percent of Australians Believe CCP May Attack Australia

August 24, 2022
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Nearly half of Australians believe the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will launch a military attack on Australia, according to new research by the Australian Institute’s International & Security Affairs. The data, which was released on Aug. 22 as part of the “Polling – Australian and Taiwanese attitudes to China” research paper (pdf), came from a survey…

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Australia Has Failed to Recognise China’s ‘Fundamentally Different Vision for the World’: Shadow Defence Minister

August 7, 2022
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Australia’s shadow defence minister has called on the West to “see China with clear eyes” as he warned Australia’s “greatest vulnerability” is its failure to recognise the communist regime’s “fundamentally different vision for the world.”  Andrew Hastie on Sunday said that Australia is in an “immensely difficult” position where it can neither forsake its closest…

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Beijing Must Acknowledge Its Mistakes: Australian PM

July 14, 2022
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called on Beijing to admit it was a mistake to impose economic coercion on Australia and to remove trade barriers that have been place since 2020. The comments by Albanese come days after Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met on the sidelines of the…

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National Security a Major Focus of New Australian Shadow Ministry

June 5, 2022
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Australia’s opposition Liberal-National Coalition will continue its strong focus on defence and national security after the shadow ministry was unveiled on June 5 with the newly created portfolio of Countering Foreign Interference. Shifting into the role of shadow defence minister will be Andrew Hastie, a former soldier and the assistant defence minister, while James Paterson,…

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