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Australia set to approve tough new veto powers over foreign agreements amid China row
Australia's parliament was on Thursday set to pass legislation giving the federal government power to veto any agreement struck with foreign states, a move likely to anger China and intensify a bitter diplomatic spat between the two countries.
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“Australia’s policies and plans, the rules that we make for our country are made here in Australia according to our needs and our interests,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters in Canberra.
Morrison has stressed the law is not aimed at any country but it is widely seen by analysts as directed at China.