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Taiwan won't join Exercise Talisman Sabre, says Labor MP
Jumping back to Labor frontbencher Tanya Plibersek on Sunrise this morning, on a panel with Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce, Plibersek says the government isn't considering allowing Taiwan to join a major military exercise.
Australia really values our unofficial relationship with Taiwan. We have got a lot of exchange on trade and investment and on regional security and stability. We think the best way to maintain security and stability in region is for no unilateral changes for the status of relations between China and Taiwan. And we're not currently considering involvement of Taiwan in exercise Talisman Sabre.
The Israelis were providing aid up until that point, but it was all going to Hamas. It was that aid was not being distributed to the Palestinian people. So the Israelis said, why are we providing aid when Hamas is just weaponising that aid.
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