Anthony Albanese is travelling to Europe where he is expected to announce a $1 billion defence deal with Germany.
Former prime minister Paul Keating has branded NATO boss Jens Stoltenberg a “supreme fool” for seeking to deepen the alliance’s ties with Asia as Anthony Albanese heads to Europe to cement Australia’s blossoming relationship with the alliance grouping.
Albanese and Scholz will on Monday announce an agreement for Australia to sell 100 Queensland-made Boxer heavy weapons carriers to Germany in a $1 billion deal that is believed to be one of the nation’s biggest defence export contracts. “We are not in favour as a matter of principle,” an Elysee Palace official told reporters on Friday. “As far as the office is concerned, the Japanese authorities themselves have told us that they are not extremely attached to it.”
Claiming that “the Europeans have been fighting each other for the best part of 300 years”, Keating said: “Exporting that malicious poison to Asia would be akin to Asia welcoming the plague upon itself.“With all of Asia’s recent development amid its long and latent poverty, that promise would be compromised by having anything to do with the militarism of Europe – and militarism egged on by the United States.
Stoltenberg, a former Norwegian prime minister who has served as the head of NATO since 2014, last week had his term extended for another year.
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