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EXCLUSIVE: Greens Senator ignores China’s belligerence; calls for cancellation of cooperation with US military during corona crisis

27 May 2020

5:42 PM

27 May 2020

5:42 PM

As China denigrates Australia in official state media, slaps restrictions on our exports, refuses to respond to Trade Minister Simon Birmingham, uses coronavirus as cover for a brutal clampdown on pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong and threatens military action against Taiwan, a high-profile Greens Senator has called for an end to military cooperation with the United States while the COVID crisis continues.

In a series of Tweets, Greens Party peace and disarmament spokesman Jordon Steele-John expressed concern that the United States Marine Rotational Force will be going ahead in Darwin in early June.

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