Australia’s Albanese Says US-China Conflict ‘Not Preordained’
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Anthony Albanese
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Australia’s prime minister called for the US and China to work together to maintain peace in the Pacific, saying the region is not simply an “arena for the ambitions of others.”
In the keynote address at the Shangri-La Dialogue defense summit in Singapore, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the future of the Asia-Pacific region was yet to be decided and it was harmful to assume that a regional war was “inevitable.”