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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

The Australian port at the centre of a tug-of-war between Beijing and Canberra

China and Australia are sparring for control of an Australian port as concern grows over Beijing's exponentially growing influence in the Indo-Pacific.

China is vehemently opposing Australia’s plan to take back the controversial decades-long lease of the port in the northern city of Darwin.

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