Senior ministers have been notably reluctant to criticise Narendra Modi’s government,with India seen as a crucial economic and strategic partner for Australia.
Taiwan’s new president Lai Ching-te has demanded Beijing stop threatening the island,while urging the world to see the protection of Taiwan’s democratic freedoms as essential to global peace.
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Senior Labor figures,including the prime minister,also distanced themselves from Senator Fatima Payman who accused Israel of conducting a genocide in Gaza.
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Labor senator Fatima Payman also used the slogan “from the river to the sea,Palestine will be free”,which Anthony Albanese has criticised as provocative.
In a rare public display of disunity on foreign affairs,Labor MP Josh Burns said Jewish Australians would feel more isolated as a result of the vote.
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China is playing a calculated strategic game in the Middle East,positioning itself as a peace-brokering alternative to the US while having no real skin in the game,experts say.