AustraliaNews.com.auUS alliance ‘makes us a target’ for China, new Greens leader warns
New Greens leader David Shoebridge says Australia's US military alliance makes the country a target for China and is a betrayal of Australian interests.
The US “wants to fight their next war from Australia”, new Greens leader David Shoebridge has warned, in remarks branding the alliance a “deep betrayal of Australia’s interests”.
Newly elected Greens leader David Shoebridge warned that US military arrangements in Australia are drawing the country into a potential conflict with China.
Shoebridge pointed to nuclear-capable B-52 bombers, a planned submarine base near Perth, Pine Gap, and munition dumps as evidence of US war preparations on Australian soil.
The comments signal the Greens will push a strongly anti-alliance foreign policy position as they seek to differentiate themselves from Labor and the Coalition.
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