China will ‘play us on a break’ whenever possible: Stephen Conroy

Former Labor Senator Stephen Conroy says the Chinese government “could not give a stuff” what Australia says. Mr Conroy told Sky News host Paul Murray that China will “play us on a break” whenever they can. This comes after a fighter jet from the People’s Liberation Army-Air Force dropped flares in the immediate flight path of an ADF Seahawk conducting routine operations off HMAS Hobart in the Yellow Sea on Saturday night. “So, the most substantive thing that Australia can do is to continue as we have been doing – opposing their coercion and bribery in the Pacific Islands. “Working to build the alliance network across the Indo-Pacific.”