Australia to invest US$187 million in Asean security pact amid ‘provocative and coercive actions’ скачать в хорошем качестве

Australia to invest US$187 million in Asean security pact amid ‘provocative and coercive actions’

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/clipssubscribe For more on the story: https://sc.mp/t92fn Australia has unveiled a US$42 million package to fund an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) security deal over the next four years. The country’s foreign minister Penny Wong announced the move at the start of the Asean-Australia summit on March 4, 2024, saying, “What happens in the South China Sea, in the Taiwan Strait, in the Mekong subregion, across the Indo-Pacific, affects us all”. China claims almost the entire South China Sea despite a 2016 ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitrations, which said Beijing’s claims in some of the disputed waters had no legal basis. In a separate speech, Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo said the South China Sea was of strategic importance and called for Asean to “uphold cooperation”. Support us: https://subscribe.scmp.com Follow us on: Website: https://www.scmp.com Facebook:   / scmp   Twitter:   / scmpnews   Instagram:   / scmpnews   Linkedin:   / south-china-morning-post   #scmp #Asia