“Together with Japan, as well as the United States and India, we pushed back against China’s assertiveness. We have not been intimidated,” Morrison says.
Morrison also calls for Labor to consider sanctioning Chinese officials responsible for human rights abuses in Xinjiang, where many international human rights organisations have confirmed the genocidal treatment of the Uyghur population.
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“While it would be naive to believe that targeted sanctions of Chinese officials in Xinjiang or higher up would lead to the elimination of such abuses, this argument alone does negate the merit of such sanctions,” Morrison says.
He acknowledges that this could lead to reprisals against Australian citizens being held in China, but says: “one argument that should not prevail is that we would not progress such sanctions for fear of political, trade or diplomatic reprisals from the Chinese government.”
Truss, who like Morrison is now a backbench MP, says in her speech that Taiwan should be given greater international standing and be economically and militarily supported through an expanded “Pacific alliance” to help Taipei withstand China’s attempts at reunification.
Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss says Taiwan should be given greater international status. Credit:AP
“In my view that [China’s unification] would be disastrous,” Truss says, adding that the free world needed to learn the lesson from failing to stand up to Russia’s Vladimir Putin, speculating that the current war in Europe may have been averted if Ukraine had been admitted to NATO.
“We should be doing all we can to strengthen our ties with Taiwan; we know that doing more now will help prevent tragedy later,” Truss says.
She argues for an economic version of NATO’s Article 5, which pledges all NATO ..
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