“The first shots fired in any war will not be bullets, but bits and bytes, disabling your military systems and civil infrastructure,” Morrison says.
In his speech, Morrison says that Russia, Iran and China lead the world in state-sponsored cyberattacks, meaning that in any war, conflict would begin by taking down civil infrastructure and military systems.
Morrison also calls for Labor to consider sanctioning Chinese officials responsible for human rights abuses in Xinjiang, where many international human rights organisations have confirmed the genocidal treatment of the Uyghur population.“While it would be naive to believe that targeted sanctions of Chinese officials in Xinjiang or higher up would lead to the elimination of such abuses, this argument alone does not negate the merit of such sanctions,” Morrison says.
“We should be doing all we can to strengthen our ties with Taiwan; we know that doing more now will help prevent tragedy later,” Truss says.
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