US President Joe Biden has tightened the American alliance with Australia in a series of pacts on commerce and foreign policy while warning about the dangers posed by China less than two weeks before Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visits Beijing.
Sitting alongside Albanese in the Oval Office on Wednesday while speaking to the press, Biden said Xi had asked him why the US worked so closely with Australia and said he had replied: “Because we’re a Pacific nation.” “We want a peaceful and secure region, but we want one as well that’s based upon the rule of law and where national sovereignty, including issues such as the South China Sea and the right of passage in that important waterway there – the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait – is respected,” he said.
One element is a $US65 million investment by the two countries in “resilient” undersea networks in co-operation with Google, cable company APTelecom and Hawaiki Nui, which runs a cable that connects New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Singapore and the US. A separate agreement clears the way for US spacecraft to be launched from sites in Australia, such as a spaceport in the Northern Territory, by setting technical safeguards to share confidential US knowledge.
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