Termination of Victoria’s Belt and Road Deal Affirms Australia’s Soveriegnty
Federal and state politicians from around Australia have welcomed the federal government’s termination of Victoria’s Belt and Road deal, calling it a step in the right direction.
Federal Liberal Senator Eric Abetz, from Tasmania, welcomed the decision telling The Epoch Times that it has given Australia back its sovereignty over its ability regulate its national interests.
“As we’ve seen with Belt and Road initiatives in every other country of the world, it has never been within the interests of that country and has only been in the interests of the Chinese dictatorship,” Abetz said. “And that is why it was right and proper for the former agreement with the Victorian Labour government to be terminated.”