Photo: Getty ImagesDefence Minister Peter Dutton has declared Australia will never surrender its sovereignty or compromise its values to appease China. China has threatened to launch fresh action against Australia after the federal government tore up Victoria's Belt and Road Initiative agreements with Beijing. Mr Dutton said Australia had been clear with China throughout the long-running diplomatic stoush. "We're not going to have our values compromised, we aren't going to surrender our sovereignty," he told Nine on Friday. The prime minister doesn't do foreign policy and we've got a foreign minister who is basically in hiding.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 23, 2021 01:41 UTC