Australia has taken a 'simple view' towards competition in Antarctica

Australia has taken a “very simple view” towards the competition in Antarctica, says ANU North America Director Professor John Blaxland. “The competition over Antarctica is growing, we’ve got several Chinese bases on Australian Antarctic territory,” Professor Blaxland told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “China is looking at this with the long game in mind. “We can barely agree on building a runway, we’ve decided not to build a runway when it’s clearly in our interests to do so in my view. “And we face the prospect of more competition and that use of Antarctica by so-called scientific purposes by others, I think is seriously questionable.”