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Liberal Party Defence and National Security Policy Chair Lincoln Parker says it certainly appears like Prime Minister Anthony Albanese may have covered up the Chinese warship sonar incident.
“Because this incident happened a good few days before APEC 2023 in San Francisco and we saw the Prime Minister go over to Xi Jinping with a big smile on his face and shake his hands with two hands over it,” Mr Parker told Sky News host Erin Molan.
“I don’t think he did what Ambassador Rudd said and that’s do a pull-aside where he raised the issue that our ship was in distress, it was disabled, it was in Japanese waters.
“And the Australian ship had communicated with a nearby Chinese destroyer and said, ‘we are disabled, we are in distress, we’ve got divers in the water trying to unfoul our screws’, so the propeller had been caught in fishing nets.
“And yet the Chinese destroyer came closer and then deployed its active sonar which can actually be fatal to divers.”
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