‘China wants us to be subject to their will’: Albanese ‘bending over backwards’ for China

LNP MP Henry Pike has called out the Albanese government for “bending over backwards” for China when they don’t “want to be our friend or equal” – they want Australia to be “subject to their will”. China’s Ambassador to Australia yesterday blamed the Japanese for the sonar pulse that injured Australian navy divers last year. His comments contradict China’s state media, which, at the time, acknowledged it was the fault of the Chinese military. “I think it’s been an incredibly weak response, but it hasn’t just been an incredibly weak response this week - it’s been an incredibly weak response since the prime minister was elected,” Mr Pike told Sky News host Paul Murray. “He has bent over backwards to try to accommodate China, to try to thaw the relationship that had frosted over the last decade, and, unfortunately, he’s finding out the hard way that it’s not because of Australia’s behaviour that has created this frosty relationship, it’s because of China. “China doesn’t want to be our friend or equal; China wants us to be subject to their will.”