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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspondent

Paul Keating says The Australian should be ‘contemptuously ignored’ ahead of Wang Yi meeting

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Paul Keating accused News Corp’s national broadsheet of being ‘trenchantly anti-Chinese’. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

Paul Keating has declared that The Australian newspaper should be “contemptuously ignored” as the former Labor prime minister hit back at criticism of his plans to meet with China’s visiting foreign minister.

Keating, an outspoken opponent of the Australian government’s plans to acquire nuclear-powered submarines, also accused News Corp’s national broadsheet of being “trenchantly anti-Chinese”.

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