Factcheck: the Coalition says Labor always ‘takes China’s side’, but are the parties’ positions so different?

Scott Morrison has accused the opposition of being in China’s corner but there have been times when Labor has taken a more hawkish position than the Coalition. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

As the Coalition campaign seeks to revive the talking point that Labor always “takes China’s side”, Scott Morrison implored reporters to “just look at the record”.

So we did just that and found the claims by the prime minister and his senior ministers are either factually inaccurate, misleading, or lack context.