Coalition wants to scrutinise ‘national security risk’ of Chinese-made EVs – as it happened

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Coalition would consider mirroring US action on TikTok due to foreign interference risk', says Paterson

Paterson has implied that the Coalition would consider taking similar action to the US on TikTok.

TikTok will pose a national security risk and particularly a foreign interference risk in our democracy. The US has taken action. The worrying thing is you might end up with a safer version of TikTok in the United States and a more dangerous version in Australia because we have been unwilling to take that action.

Of course, it happened on the Albanese government's watch. They deserve some of credit for that, but it is a credit to Australia as a whole because the reason why the Chinese government has walked away from these sanctions is because they didn't work.

So much so that the Biden administration is taking very tough action to eliminate them from their market. If our closest ally and friends think it is a concern, we should address it as well.

For example, you can impose minimum cybersecurity standards that would lift the bar that all Internet devices like that have to meet, not just cars but other devices connected to the Internet.