Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has warned a U.S. congressional committee that the ambition of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for global hegemony and a new world order cannot be changed or negotiated away.
Speaking at a hearing of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the CCP on July 23, Morrison said that the United States and Australia, as long-standing allies, see the world through the same lens.
“It is through that lens that we have both been able to identify the rising threat from authoritarian states who are not content with absolute control over their own populations to preserve their own regimes, [and] seek hegemonic control over their own regions and recast the world order to accommodate their illiberal objectives,” he said….
Impossible to Negotiate Away the Ambitions of the CCP: Former Australian PM Tells Congress
