Former Labor prime minister hit back at criticism of his plans to meet with China’s visiting foreign minister
Paul Keating has declared that The Australian newspaper should be “contemptuously ignored” as the former Labor prime minister hit back at criticism of his plans to meet with China’s visiting foreign minister.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup He said the meeting was “hardly an ‘extraordinary intervention’ as reported in today’s Australian”, nor a “jarring addition” to Wang’s Australian visit. The Australian newspaper described the trip as “jarring” in light of the fact that Keating had, just a fortnight ago, accused the Australian foreign minister, Penny Wong, of being quick to “rattle the China can” while “sporting her ‘deeply concerned’ frown”.
Keating said he had also supported Wong “in her attempts to lower the loud hailer and ‘stabilise’ relations with China”.Our Australian morning briefing breaks down the key stories of the day, telling you what’s happening and why it matters“Australia has moved substantially from the counterproductive baiting policy the Morrison government applied to China to now something much more civil and productive.
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