US STATE Department spokesman Ned Price said the United States supports Australia’s decision to cancel two Belt & Road Initiative arrangements with Beijing. “We continue to stand with the people of Australia as they bear the brunt of the PRC’s coercive behaviour,” Mr Price said.
FEDERAL Senator Jacqui Lambie has publicly questioned whether Andrews government MPs “personally” benefitted from secret Belt & Road negotiations with the Chinese Communist Party. In a scathing interview on Sky News’ First Edition yesterday Ms Lambie said the Victorian Labor government was “off its head” and “absolutely nuts”. She said full details of Mr Andrews deal were still to be learned.
THE Prime Minister has forced the Victorian State government to hand over documents related to secret deals it signed with the Chinese Communist Party. This is the third “Belt & Road” deal between Victoria and the CCP that the Morrison government is scrutinising under the Foreign Relations Bill that will see arrangements with all foreign nations at each level of government vetoed if they aren’t in Australia’s national interests.
