Kurt Campbell says US president raised Beijing’s trade strikes against Australian exports with Xi Jinping as actions that were ‘backfiring’
Australia won’t lose its sovereignty under the Aukus deal, according to Joe Biden’s top Indo-Pacific adviser, Kurt Campbell, who has sought to clarify his prediction of a “melding” of Australian, US and UK military forces.
Campbell also said the US president had raised Beijing’s trade strikes against Australian export sectors in his recent virtual meeting with China’s president, Xi Jinping, as an example of actions on the world stage that were “backfiring”.
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Source: The Guardian