Aussie PM Calls Beijing and Moscow Partnership ‘Chilling’

Aussie PM Calls Beijing and Moscow Partnership ‘Chilling’
Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin walk toward a hall in the Kremlin to hold talks, in Moscow on June 5, 2019. AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File
Updated:
0:00

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.
Victoria Kelly-Clark
Author
Victoria Kelly-Clark is an Australian based reporter who focuses on national politics and the geopolitical environment in the Asia-pacific region, the Middle East and Central Asia.
twitter
Related Topics